Gerrit Cole is probably the best pitcher in baseball and Aaron Judge the best hitter. But like the rest of us, they both marvel at two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani.
. But though Cole and Judge were both great two-way players in high school, only one of them even wonders if he could have tried to do both at the major league level.
“I wish I was a kid coming up. What an inspiration that is for people that strive to do that,” said Cole, an Ohtani admirer from the beginning. “By the end of high school I was throwing 100 mph. I loved hitting. I loved playing the field. But it was, you’re never going to do that anymore. You throw too hard.
A majority of scouts actually first projected Judge to be a pitcher since he’s 6-foot-7 and threw in the mid 90s. But he said he tried to do both in college, and if he kept trying, “I think I’d end up right where I am now — just hitting.” Judge always saw hitting as his ticket to the bigs. “It kind of pissed me off coming out of high school. Really a lot of teams liked me more as a pitcher than a hitter. I kind of took offense to that,” Judge said. “I said I’m not going to pitch in the big leagues. I’d rather hit home runs than give up home runs. I don’t think my arm would have lasted. These guys throw 200 innings in a year. That’s a gift right there.” , I asked Judge how he’d rank arguably the game’s three best players, including also Mike Trout.
Aaron Judge was pegged as a pitcher by some scouts, though his hitting it what got him to the big leagues.“I’ve got Trout and Ohtani above me. Ohtani is doing both pitching and hitting, and Mike Trout wins an MVP every other year. I’ve got some work to do.”
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