Aaron Judge's Yankees season is all about repairing the ugly trend

Tampa – Aaron Judge will try to improve an almost unprecedented 2024 season.

And yet, no matter what he will do in the coming regular season, it is largely put aside when the Yankees do the playoffs because the baseball world will wait to see how judge works in October.

Because when it comes to last year, two things stand out: Richter's work during the regular season, in which he mainly set up the best number of his career and then an ugly off -season when judge was mainly a chaos on his plate.

The judge is aware of this second fact.

“I definitely have to improve,” said Richter this week at Steinbrenner Field. “The last off -season wasn't the best. I know that '22 wasn't that great either. I don't want to think about the negative, but it is part of it. It is the role in which I am. If you are at the top, it happens. I have to improve. I have to get better and have a few ideas. We'll see how it works. ”

The judge declined to expand these ideas, but he has already talked about what he was doing this spring to avoid another slow start to the regular season.

Judge expects to take up more bats in spring training games to be in top shape from the opening day.

But it is unclear how he can change his routine in the regular season.

He stayed healthy last year, and when a workload with 158 games loaded the 6-foot 7 judge, she did not show up late in the regular season when he was as dangerous on the plate as during the rest of the year.

His battles in October come not only on last year or – like judge, 2022 – but until 2018, when he stopped beating a Homer in three games in a row.

Since game 3 of the Alds against Red Sox, Judge has played 42 Playoff games and created an ops of 0.657 with nine homers, only a few doubles, 25 walks and 57 strike outs in 191 record appearances.

And last year the Yankees reached the World Series mostly on the back of Juan Soto, who led the Yankees with an ops of 1.102 and Giancarlo Stanton's team high seven Homer.

The judge's disappointment is more in the fact that the Yankees have decreased in five games to the Dodgers as his own statistics.

“It is more than we didn't do the job,” said Richter. “I had good post -seasons and we didn't get out of that [division series]. So what is there to speak there? You could have a good game and then you sit at home. All that matters is the team that wins. ''

And like the rest of the Yankees, he is still waiting for his first title – and it doesn't matter how they are neglected.

“It is just like in any other season whether they don't do the post -season in the World Series,” said Richter. “It sits with you and you have to deal with it. But you can't think about it. ”

However, you can think about it and it is something that the judge stays in your head.

“When I signed again here [as a free agent]It was about winning a championship, several championships, ”said Richter. “The money and everything that is great, but I want to win and I have to do more to make sure this happens.”

And he repeated his plan to ensure that he is part of it: “I have some ideas.”