{"id":826458,"date":"2026-10-10T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826458\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:48:26","slug":"clock-is-ticking-on-aaron-judges-entry-into-dubious-yankees-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/826458\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock is ticking on Aaron Judge&#8217;s entry into dubious Yankees club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was one of the last men in the dugout, because he is always one of the last man in the dugout on elimination night, because this has become an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/08\/sports\/aaron-judge-wants-yankees-to-go-all-in-after-another-playoff-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual rite of October for Aaron Judge<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A team other than the Yankees is celebrating a postseason victory at Yankee Stadium and Judge forces himself to watch all of it, every bit of it, until the celebration moves from the field to the locker room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust hating,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/08\/sports\/aaron-judge-doesnt-mince-words-about-watching-yankees-alds-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he would say late Wednesday<\/a>, \u201cevery single moment of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t for show, either. Yankees fans know he cares. They know it killed him to miss the Yankees brief five-game tour through the postseason. They have to know by now how each of these postseason failures weigh on him, because they\u2019ve sure happened enough. And every year, especially in those years since he became team captain, the weight increases exponentially.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was one of the last men in the dugout, because he is always one of the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,5,9925,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,142],"class_list":["post-826458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-don-mattingly","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117419055740724491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}