AARON JUDGE’S PERSONAL HITTING COACH TAKES SHOT AT YANKEES
Aaron Judge’s personal hitting coach shared some extremely critical thoughts on the New York Yankees on social media Thursday.
Richard Schenck, who has been working with Judge since the star’s rookie season, blasted the Yankees for “terrible” player development on offense in an X post. Schenck was reacting to Judge’s recent hot streak coming during a stretch in which the Yankees have lost 13 of their last 18 games.
During the aforementioned 18-game stretch, Judge is hitting .367 with seven home runs. Their pitching has struggled at times, however, and the rest of the offense has not pulled its weight to the same degree.
It is worth noting that Judge and Schenck are close. While Schenck is not employed by the Yankees, Judge has praised him as a “career-changer” and credited him with helping Judge’s development into perhaps the league’s best hitter.
The Yankees’ struggles certainly are not purely down to their player development. Plenty of the team’s struggling hitters were developed elsewhere, with Anthony Volpe the only regular who was fully developed within the team’s farm system. Plus, it is not just offense that has been a problem plaguing the team.
Still, Yankee officials are not going to be happy to hear Judge’s trusted confidant calling out the organization.
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