Newmann: The context of contact

Newmann: The context of contact

A recent three-game baseball series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers featured two of the marquee players in the game, Aaron Judge and Shohei Otani. Judge and Otani are both massive guys (Judge at 6 feet, 7 inches and 282 pounds while Otani is 6 feet, 4 inches and weighs in at 210 pounds) and they are two of the best power hitters in the game (Judge with 25 homers so far this season and Otani at 17). All in all, they repre…