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Joey Gallo or Aaron Judge: who is the better bet?

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Both have enormous power but significant questions about contact. Who is the better long-term investment?

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Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees just hit a home run in the first spring training game of 2017.

In response, J.J. Cooper of Baseball America tweeted this:

That’s an interesting question. Who has a better chance of long-term success, Gallo or Judge? They are five months apart on age so that’s not a big difference (EDIT: That’s not right, it is actually a year and five months; I misread Judge’s birthday as 4/26/93 rather than the true date of 4/26/92; this does make a big difference). Both have shown their power in Triple-A but had contact issues in their initial major league exposures.

Ignoring the issue of defense and concentrating solely on their bats, if you had to have either Judge or Gallo for the next five years, who would you pick? In other words, who is going to be more successful in the long run?

I asked Cooper this on Twitter and he felt Judge was the higher risk due to his greater height.

What do you think?