TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Judge views his career in baseball through a favorite piece of scripture: To whom much is given, much is required. It’s the way the Yankees superstar views his responsibility as an ambassador of the game, and it’s the way he views the players around him who stand as the first representatives for the sport he loved as a child, and now gets to play as an adult.



Judge sees baseball through the eyes of the children who scream his name from the stands and beg for batting gloves when he trots out to right field before the top of the next inning. He’s no longer that child himself — he’s playing the game now for much more than backyard bragging rights and sees his face stretched dozens of feet tall on a banner when he enters George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa every day this spring — but he often examines his actions by how they’d look if he were the kid in right field again, watching someone else live out their...