Aaron Judge is skipping the early season slump in scorching Yankees start

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.Aaron Judge is one month into yet another potentially historic regular season. This one was born out of October failure. “I wanted to come out, especially after how we ended the year last year not winning the World Series, there was a lot of work to be done,” Judge said this week.

“All you can do is look in the mirror and try to figure out ways to get better and try to improve.Hopefully, that inspires somebody else to improve.” It is only one month, and still five to go before the calendar flips to the only month where Judge can ultimately get his vengeance from batting .184 (9-for-49) with a .752 OPS last postseason.

But in the interim, he has immediately gotten a leg up on each of his other two MVP seasons. The irony was not lost that the Yankees were playing at Camden Yards this week to close out April with Judge batting an absurd .427 with a 1.282 OPS and 10 home runs through 31 games.He stood at his locker Wednesday night shrugging off the red-hot start, similar to how he shrugged off his slow start while standing at the same locker in the same clubhouse on May 2 of last year when he finished a series against the Orioles batting just .197 with a .725 OPS and six home runs through his first 33 games. “You just got to go up there with confidence, no matter what,” Judge said Wednesday night.

“I felt the same, even when I was hitting .170 last year and you guys were asking me all the questions about, ‘When are you going to turn it around?’ I can’t focus on results.I got to focus on the process and trying to get a job done.

If you do that for 500 at-bats, good things are going to happen.” Judge insisted he tries not to look at his batting average, as gaudy as it may be, until the season is over.In the best all-around offensive season of his career last year, despite the tough start, he finished...