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Message: [QUOTE="AirForceOrange, post: 2049682, member: 1668"] [URL="http://insider.espn.com/blog/keith-law/insider/post?id=6248"]2017 prospect rankings: 60-41[/URL] [B]44. [/B][URL='http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33192/aaron-judge'][U][B]Aaron Judge[/B][/U][/URL][B], RF, [/B][URL='http://insider.espn.com/mlb/team/_/name/nyy/new-york-yankees'][U][B]New York Yankees[/B][/U][/URL] [B] Age: 25 (4/26/92) | B/T: R/R Height: 6-7 | Weight: 275 Top level: MLB | 2016: 36[/B] Judge struggled with contact in the majors -- with 42 strikeouts in 95 plate appearances. But that’s nothing new for him: Judge punched out in 29 percent of his PAs in his first month in Double-A, then cut it to 23 percent for the next six weeks and was promoted to Triple-A, whereupon he did the same thing: 28 percent in his first Triple-A stint in 2015 and down to 24 percent in 2016, after which he came to the majors. Judge is enormous -- 6-foot-7 and listed at 275 pounds -- with a strike zone to match. Covering the inner third and the outside corner simultaneously has been an ongoing challenge for him, with pitchers at each level commanding the ball better to exploit this issue. He has shown that he can tighten up his discipline after some time at each level, though doing so in the majors will be the hardest challenge he has faced. But if Judge gets that back down to that 25-30 percent range, he’ll be an offensive force because the contact he makes is so hard. He has real 30-homer power, even at that contact rate, and he has shown enough patience that I think he’ll walk 60-plus times a year. With his athleticism -- he’s an average runner -- and plus arm, he’d be an asset in right field, all of which adds up to more than just an everyday player. [/QUOTE]

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