Giancarlo Stanton Red Sox Trade Would Set Up Dream HR Rivalry with Aaron Judge

Source: bleacherreport.com --- Wednesday, November 22, 2017
It's good enough that Major League Baseball has Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge set to go toe-to-toe in pursuit of slugging accolades for many years to come. Even better would be if their rivalry were also a face-to-face affair, with Stanton and Judge on opposite sides of the long-running feud between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees . Stanton, the National League MVP, and Judge, the American League MVP runner-up, are gigantic right fielders who made impressive shows of launching 59 and 52 home runs, respectively, in 2017. It was hard  not to think of them as two very big peas in a very big pod. But with Stanton playing in the NL East with the Miami Marlins and Judge playing in the AL East with the Yankees, they were rivals much more in theory than in reality. "It's the kind of a thing where we both have to talk about all the time but don't even know each other, or said hello," Stanton said in July, per Michelle Kaufman of the Miami Herald . "It's like the twin you've never met, I guess. Everyone's comparing us to each other. We don't even know each other." However, nothing can strike up a true rivalry like close proximity. That may be in the cards for Stanton and Judge. Stanton and the remainder of his 13-year, $325 million contract are on the chopping block as new Marlins owners Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter seek to cut payroll. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the trade offers are rolling in: Per Jon Paul ...

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