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He is Al Leiter.

MLB Network analyst won three World Series titles and two-time All-Star.

By the way, MLB Network has Phillies Royals this Saturday.

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Also, Sunday at 8 Eastern, a documentary on Greg Maddox called One of a Kind,

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Al, thanks for joining us.

How do you quantify what Aaron Judge has done so far this season?

I don't think we're that surprised, Dan, based on what he did a couple years ago

and the amazing season that he had with the Yankees in his free agent year.

He is amazing to watch.

As I watch with a critical eye as a retired pitcher, he marginally ever looks fooled. His ability to stay on the

baseball and go the other way. Honestly, he's a behemoth of a guy, huge massive hitter person,

super impressive to play center field. And he's just that good, honestly.

I'm not surprised.

And it's mostly because of where he is now as next echelon superstar.

The fact that he's like, here's a thing when I,

here's the thing that I think is what's happened, Dan.

And I watch over the years,

I'm glad you mentioned about the Greg Maddox piece because I can't wait to see it. I've been on the network this week, and we've been showing snippets of it, and, you know, we could argue about generations and who would be who, and how would they play now, and they're better now, and they're better athletes. Well, there's a skill to our sport, as you know, and there's a nuance to all of it, and I think what Greg Maddox brought, you know, he doesn't throw 95 to 100, but his ability to carve up a hitter's weakness

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