Aaron Judge Support Group

@NoApologies999 @JespersBurner You can’t respond to these guys they are just satire trying to farm engagement. They know nothing about ball. He can’t truly think a high walk rate means anything to someone with a career OBP under .300

@JespersBurner @HelpJudgeYanks He has 19 walks and 18 hits. He would be better standing there and not swinging. He never drives the ball with any authority. Automatic out.

austin wells is an average hitter (97 wRC+) & elite defender at a premium position ranks 3rd in framing (+26) & FRV (+27) from 2024-26 he's been worth 4.5 fWar/650 PA that's a top ~30 player if you think you're simply finding a better catcher you're completely clueless

@LeekNabers @JespersBurner You’re not watching the games 🤣 I’m done with you. He’s bad, not the player they drafted. He won’t have a job with the organization in 2 years and will likely be playing with cano in Mexico

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner One month sample size when he’s had better underlying metrics than last year. Austin wells is not an auto out because of one month of a season 😭😭😭

@LeekNabers @JespersBurner So last year helps this year? He’s regressed every year. You’re also taking the extreme of going back to Gary as the catcher. There’s a middle ground of a lower defensive catcher to bring in a more productive hitter. Wells is an auto out and can’t move guys over or get them in

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner Last year he was an above average hitting catcher relative to wRC+ among catchers. Replacing him with a much worse defensive catcher and a decently better hitter would not win more games

@LeekNabers @JespersBurner But you can’t just ignore offense. He’s great behind the plate but you are misguided in your evaluation if you think his unproductively at the plate hasn’t hurt the team more. If you were to replace him with a worse defensive catcher but better hitter it would win more games

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner Catcher is the ONE position where defense is more important that offense

@LeekNabers @JespersBurner Hes regressed every year. If you honestly think having him at catcher gives the Yankees 3 more wins vs having someone who hits but isn’t as good defensively then I think you don’t understand baseball and should stick football Mr. Nabers (hope your recovery is going well)

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner He’s just not considering the past two seasons he’s been a 3+ fWAR player

@WillLumpLump @JespersBurner You get it Bon Jovi! Preach brother

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner Unless you’re the Mets of course

@JespersBurner @OfftheSET_ Forgotten more about the game than you’ll ever know bud

@HelpJudgeYanks @OfftheSET_ calling other people clowns when you have no idea how baseball works or how teams value players is some rich irony

@JespersBurner He’s worth negative 😂

@HelpJudgeYanks yes you're making that up because you're objectively wrong, & terribly so for his career he's been worth -6.7 batting runs & +41.5 defensive runs, do the math genius

@YankeeSource Id name my first child CashGod if they made that switch

Paul Goldschmidt has a .902 OPS. Just another reason to start to get Rice into the catching mix at some point.

@JespersBurner I’m making up the fact that his bat hurts the team more than his defense helps? If you think that’s not true then you’ve never played baseball past the age of 18

@HelpJudgeYanks except it just doesn't, you're making shit up with zero basis in reality, he's been an extremely valuable player that's just a fact and ben rice is definitely not an everyday catcher, it would also likely hurt his bat

@JespersBurner @OfftheSET_ Hahahah you’re so blind I might call you Stevie wonder. Wells will be replaced just like volpe (I bet you defended him too 🤡). You’ve gotta stop looking at advanced stats and get back to some of the basics btw. Don’t let one stat lead your whole belief 😂 🤡 😆 😭

@HelpJudgeYanks @OfftheSET_ wells is one of the best starting catchers in the league that's just a matter of fact. again, he's 6th in fwar the last three years, you're clearly delusional if you think there's more than a small handful of catchers who are good hitters 97 wRC+ is above league average for C

@JespersBurner Good for him that’s awesome. Wells’s unproductive offense outweighs is defense. The incremental improvements and wins the Yankees would get with a better hitter is just a non debatable fact. Put rice behind the plate and have goldy at 1b wins more games than having wells

@HelpJudgeYanks you're just simply ignorant if you think teams don't highly value catcher defense austin hedges is maybe the worst hitter in big league history and he has an mlb job every year

@JespersBurner @OfftheSET_ No one would trade for him hahahahhaah you’re so stupid it hurts. He’s the most unproductive hitter in the league. You’re an idiot to think that escarra doesn’t offer similar outcomes in games

@HelpJudgeYanks @OfftheSET_ lol it's an objective fact that teams prioritize defense > offense at C there are 5 players who've taken 800+ pa as a catcher in the last three years & have a wRC+ >105 he's been a top 6 C in his career, he'd be quite attractive on the trade market wtf are you talking about

@JespersBurner Catching defense is not incredibly important lmao idk how you think it’s important anymore

@HelpJudgeYanks league wRC+ for a catcher past three years is 90, he's 97 so better than the average catcher while being an elite defender, we'd all like more offensively but that's definitely still a valuable player catching defense is incredibly important

@OfftheSET_ @JespersBurner 1. You cant act like hitting isn’t apart of being a catcher 2. Framing is not as important as it was 5 years ago and will only be less important going forward 3. His offense is incredibly unproductive and outweighs the defense 4. He can’t get on base, or get runners over or in.

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner You’re an idiot We literally had the offensive catcher and yah wanted that man sent to the moon after every error Wells is elite at everything that matters for a catcher You don’t need a catcher that can hit

@OfftheSET_ @JespersBurner No they wouldn’t. That’s a fabrication you just made up. Wells has no trade value

@HelpJudgeYanks @JespersBurner Every team in a league would rather have an elite defensive catcher that can barely hit over an elite offensive catcher that can’t catch There’s like 2 in the league that’s good at both Wells is fine

@Chris_NYY28 Been accepting it since mid last year

Austin Wells is batting .177 on the year with a .591 OPS. At what point do we just accept this is what he is as a player? Been a disaster for 2 years offensively.

@nick5875 “Jeter 2.0”

Wow Anthony Volpe is really really awful Dude shouldn’t play another game for the Yankees

@octoberstanton He was never a demon lmaoooo

He was such a demon man wtf happened to him 💔