Judge has been pretty great as well. With a 3-for-4 performance on Saturday, the All-Star and reigning MVP is leading the league with a .358 average and a 1.204 OPS. He also has 81 RBI. His 35 home runs, meanwhile, are second in baseball – Seattle’s Cal Raleigh has 38 – and the most ever by a Yankee prior to the All-Star break.

While Judge was diagnosed with a flexor strain in his right elbow, the Yankee bats mostly were throttled without him until a late Giancarlo Stanton homer in a 9-4 loss to the Phillies at the Stadium to fall to 3-5 since the All-Star break and 14-23 since June 13.

New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge and Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh emerged as the leading candidates for the AL MVP award this season.

Much like Players' Weekend, the MLB All-Star Game gives stars the chance to express their styles and personalities more than they can in a regular season game.

Welcome to Cooperstown, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen and Dave Parker! Those five legends were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, the largest class since 2022. Suzuki leads the way, and Mike Axisa summarized a peerless career:

Two of the best in the major leagues, Yankees captain Aaron Judge and Dodgers phenom Shohei Ohtani, are set to face each other in the All-Star game.