Boston Red Sox veteran responds to Yankees’ Aaron Judge World Baseball Classic claim

Many players in Major League Baseball have come out during and after the World Baseball Classic, saying that the event is more important to them than winning a World Series. I completely understand where players from outside of the USA are coming from, as there seemed to be a different sense of pride in wearing their country's jersey. 

Aaron Judge was one of the players who spoke and said that playing in the World Baseball Classic is an incredible honor, perhaps bigger than the World Series, and now a player on the Boston Red Sox had the same thing to say. 

Willson Contreras, who has experienced the World Series and WBC, spoke about where the tournament ranks in his career.

“I think it’s the best experience of my life,” Contreras told MassLive’s Chris Cotillo. “I played in the World Series in ’16 and it was big, but playing the WBC for your country, for 37 million people, means a lot more to me.”

For somebody like Contreras, it makes sense that the World Baseball Classic might mean a bit more for him. Contreras winning the World Baseball Classic would be one of the greatest honors of his life. The same can be said for Judge, but fans would know and remember him a lot more if he had a World Series with the Yankees.

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