Yankees' Aaron Judge is on a historic MLB list with Barry Bonds, Ted Williams that he doesn't want to be on

Billy Heyen

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Yankees' Aaron Judge is on a historic MLB list with Barry Bonds, Ted Williams that he doesn't want to be on image

Aaron Judge is on many lists of the greatest baseball players ever. 

But there's one such list the New York Yankees' 6-foot-7 slugger would gladly leave as soon as possible.

It's the one of guys who have never won a World Series player despite being a legend.

Mike Lupica broke this down for MLB.com:

"Here is a list from which Judge wants his name removed as soon as possible, maybe even as soon as next season, when he turns 34: The one with the greatest baseball players who never played on a World Series winner. That is the one with Ted Williams’ name on it, and Ken Griffey Jr., and Ernie Banks, and Barry Bonds; other Hall of Famers like Tony Gwynn and Rod Carew and Ichiro Suzuki and Harmon Killebrew. If you want to go back further, Ty Cobb never won a World Series, either. Mike Trout might never win one with the way his injury-filled career is playing out."

Baseball is a tricky game when it comes to this stuff. One player truly can't lead a team to a championship by himself. That showed itself quite a bit in the recent past with Trout and the Angels. The greatest player of his generation had a stretch of more than a decade in which he didn't play in the postseason.

Williams played in a very different era, where the Yankees pretty much just kept winning the American League pennant and there was no other path to the World Series.

Griffey and Bonds both played for a long time and never got that final victory.

Judge doesn't want to be that guy, particularly while playing in the Yankees' organization that's so full of winning.

So there's just one thing for Judge to do: Find a way to get over the hump and hoist the championship trophy.

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