Yankees' Aaron Boone intrigued by intentional walk idea amid Aaron Judge's recent treatment
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It is hard to blame teams for wanting to intentionally walk Aaron Judge.
The New York Yankees captain enters play on Wednesday having swatted 42 home runs while maintaining a .332 batting average.
Aaron Boone appeared on OutKick’s "The Ricky Cobb Show" and discussed a possible change regarding the intentional walk rule.
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Aaron Boone of the New York Yankees looks on prior to the game against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2024. (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
"This [proposed rule] applies to each batter individually. The first time you intentionally walk him, it’s one base; the second time you intentionally walk him, he gets two bases and everybody moves up two if anybody is on, which obviously you wouldn’t consider it if anyone was in scoring position; and if you want to do it a third time, it’s effectively a triple," Cobb proposed.
Judge was intentionally walked in the second inning with nobody on base and two outs against the Toronto Blue Jays in a game this month, which spurred the conversation about intentional walks.
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Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hits a single in the seventh inning against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2024. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
"I’m with you. So, this has been a topic I’ve been getting asked a lot about, even in my scrums with the media, so I’m like, ‘Eh, I need some time to think about it.’" Boone said. "I agree, I think it’s the biggest moments in the game, you don’t take the ball out of