Chris Kirschner, Andy McCullough and Brendan Kuty, writing for The Athletic, has a cool story about Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt hanging out in the off-season.

One day in January, the most exclusive club in baseball convened a meeting. Aaron Judge, the reigning American League MVP, booked a block of time at a baseball facility near his home in Tampa, Fla. Paul Goldschmidt, the reigning National League MVP, drove three hours across the state from his home in Jupiter, Fla., to join him. The session had been months in the making and the agenda was straightforward: discuss and demonstrate methods to further terrorize opposing pitchers.

It was the equivalent of Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z getting in the booth to talk about coming up with harder rhymes. It was J. Cole’s bar on “Middle Child” come to life, the one where he talks about his relationship with Drake: “they act like two legends cannot coexist.”

Yet, Judge and Goldschmidt did more than coexist. They made each other better.

This type of story is why I subscribe to The Athletic.