'If you don't win, what's the point?' Yankees' Aaron Judge seeks October redemption

Aaron Judge has been a full-time major leaguer for eight years .

The New York Yankees are 10 wins from snapping a 15-year championship drought.

The likely MVP is 10-for-74 ( .135 ) with five home runs and 28 strikeouts in 18 postseason games.

Judge: "If you don't win, what's the point?".

Judge is the overwhelming favorite to win his second MVP Award .

He finished third in batting average ( .322 ) and fourth in runs scored ( 122 ) and eighth in hits ( 180 ) Judge recorded the seventh -best offensive season in MLB history.

But can't you still have a great career without winning a championship? "Yeah, but that's not why I play," he says.

Seven years after falling a game short of the World Series in Judge 's rookie season, 11 years after Judge joined the organization, the Yankees have a great chance to win World Series No. 28 . It'll take Judge being Judge to make it happen. "Wearing pinstripes here in New York , it's about the World Series , so it makes it simple for us, what to focus on," Judge said. "You may have a good year , but it's not really a good year unless you won it all.".