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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Tom Verducci One player cannot deliver a title. But ultimately that is how this contract will be judged. Six-foot-seven Aaron Judge, from a rookie hitting .179 to the single season American League home run king, diligently built a ferociously efficient swing built on leverage. Judge loads on his back hip and destroys baseballs with such a precise uphill path of his bat that last season it produced a home run more than once every three times he hit a fly ball, a feat you might not see in some major league batting practices against coaches throwing 55 mph cookies. Leverage—quiet, ruthless lev…