Mike Lupica broke this down for MLB.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n“Here is a list from which Judge wants his name removed as soon as possible, maybe even as soon as next season, when he turns 34: The one with the greatest baseball players who never played on a World Series winner. That is the one with Ted Williams\u2019 name on it, and Ken Griffey Jr., and Ernie Banks, and Barry Bonds; other Hall of Famers like Tony Gwynn and Rod Carew and Ichiro Suzuki and Harmon Killebrew. If you want to go back further, Ty Cobb never won a World Series, either. Mike Trout might never win one with the way his injury-filled career is playing out.”<\/p>\n
Baseball is a tricky game when it comes to this stuff. One player truly can’t lead a team to a championship by himself. That showed itself quite a bit in the recent past with Trout and the Angels. The greatest player of his generation had a stretch of more than a decade in which he didn’t play in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Williams played in a very different era, where the Yankees pretty much just kept winning the American League pennant and there was no other path to the World Series.<\/p>\n
Griffey and Bonds both played for a long time and never got that final victory.<\/p>\n
Judge doesn’t want to be that guy, particularly while playing in the Yankees’ organization that’s so full of winning.<\/p>\n
So there’s just one thing for Judge to do: Find a way to get over the hump and hoist the championship trophy.<\/p>\n
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