Aaron Judge and Luis Gil take home some hardware.
It’s Sunday once more, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! This week, Major League Baseball brought the 2024 season to an unofficial close by announcing this year’s award winners, which included a pair of Yankees: Aaron Judge won his second career AL MVP, while pitcher Luis Gil beat out teammate Austin Wells to take home Rookie of the Year honors. How did the AL champions celebrate these personal accomplishments? Let’s get started!
King of the Gil
As noted in our introduction, Luis Gil earned this year’s American League Rookie of the Year Award. The Captain — the most recent Yankee to win ROTY honors — immediately took to Instagram to congratulate his teammate.
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After the announcement, the right-hander spent the next 24 hours basically sharing every single congratulatory tweet/Instagram post sent his way. Here are just a couple:
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The Judge reigns over the American League
A couple of days later, Judge himself received some new hardware, as he was named the 2024 AL MVP. While he was rather characteristically quiet about the award on his own account — choosing instead to thank “my teammates, my family and the fans,” — his teammates, past and present, two-legged and four-pawed, took to their accounts to celebrate his accomplishment.
Congratulations to my fren Aaron Judge on winning the American League MVP Award. We both started together on Opening Night in April 2015 with @TrentonThunder. I didn't retrieve my first bat, but he hit a walk-off home run to win the game. #ThrowbackThursday pic.twitter.com/UheRMQZchU
— Rookie (@BatdogRookie) November 22, 2024
The Martian Card
Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Pirates made waves by putting together an insane offer for anyone who can bring them a 1/1 Paul Skenes rookie card for display at their stadium. In response, the Hudson Valley Renegades made this offer for a Martian rookie card:
A @Topps card that's out of this world👽
A Jasson Domínguez 1/1 Rookie Debut Patch Autograph Card can be found in one lucky pack of 2024 Topps Chrome Update 👀 pic.twitter.com/DPx86VQv0W
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) November 18, 2024
Yanks take on UFC
Last weekend, Austin Wells, Clarke Schmidt, and Anthony Volpe attended the big UFC fight. Unfortunately, for reasons which I cannot explain, the Instagram post about this has been
