We talk all the time in baseball about guys playing big. The Yankees don’t just play big right now, in a winning streak that has now reached 13 games, longest for them in 60 years. The Yankees are big, starting with the outfield they are occasionally using these days with 6-foot-5 Joey Gallo in left, 6-foot-7 Aaron Judge in center and 6-foot-6 Giancarlo Stanton back in the field again and playing right. Never a bigger outfield in baseball history.

The Cubs once played a lot of games with Dexter Fowler, Kris Bryant and Jason Heyward as their starting outfield, all of them listed at 6-foot-5. And last July, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, there was a day when the Indians had Bradley Zimmer, Franmil Reyes and Domingo Santana out there, all of them listed at 6-foot-5.

But the Yankees right now have the front line of a basketball team out there. It’s been suggested that the football Giants probably wish they had Gallo, Judge and Stanton as tight ends, or maybe even as blockers for their quarterback. On Friday night, Judge went 3-for-5 with a home run, his 28th, and four RBIs as the Yankees beat the A’s, 8-2. Stanton hit another homer, his 24th. Gallo had a three-run shot on Thursday night against the A’s, and he has still hit more homers, with the Rangers, than either Stanton or Judge this season.

And it’s not just the outfield with the Yankees that makes them look this intimidating these days, in all ways. It is the rest of the team, too. Luke Voit, who is healthy again after leading the Majors in home runs in the short season of 2020, was at DH in Oakland. He hit a home run on Friday night. Voit is listed at 6-foot-3. And there’s never been a starting second baseman taller than 6-foot-4 DJ LeMahieu, who had a couple of hits of his own in the Yankees’ victory.

And, oh by the way? The starting pitcher was Gerrit Cole, who’s 6-foot-4 and ran his record to 13-6 on Friday night and might be on his way to winning the AL Cy Young Award. It is easy to make the case that there has never been more size on one baseball team than the Yankees fielded in Oakland as they kept winning.

The big, very bad Yankees.

Thirteen in a row, their longest winning streak since the ’61 Yankees, those home run Yankees of Mantle and Maris. The team is now 12-1 in games this season in which both Judge and Stanton have hit home runs. On Thursday night, Stanton reached for a pitch off the plate and flicked his wrists and suddenly the ball was over the right-field wall.

On Friday night, he went the other way and hit one into the second deck. And it certainly caught the attention of Yankees catcher Kyle Higashioka, who hit a home run of his own on Friday night

“Watching 'Big G' [Stanton] hit a homer is my favorite thing in all of baseball,” Higashioka said. “There’s not a single other person that the ball comes off their bat the same way. 'Big G' hits a two-iron every time. It looks like it’s still rising when it goes out.”

When the Yankees started hitting home runs a few years ago in, well, big numbers, general manager Brian Cashman liked to joke about his “big, hairy monsters.” Right now, it looks as if he has a whole team of them, power coming from up and down the batting order. But mostly from the basketball frontline in his outfield. If they can all stay on the field -- it has been a big if the past few years with Judge and Stanton -- you can only imagine what finishers they can all be in September in the American League East, and then into October.

It is impossible to discuss what they are doing since the Trade Deadline, when the principal players Cashman added were Gallo and Anthony Rizzo, without talking about how physically intimidating they have looked during this streak. Rizzo happens to be 6-foot-3, incidentally. So the Yankees had 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-7 in the outfield on Friday night, 6-foot-4 at second base, 6-foot-3 at DH and first base and 6-foot-4 at starting pitcher.

For the past couple of years, ever since Stanton came over from the Marlins, people have imagined what the middle of the Yankees order would look like with both him and Judge in it, since this is the first time since Mantle and Maris that the Yankees have had two players on the same team with 50-plus homer seasons on their resumes. Now we see.

“This is what we thought we’d do all year,” Voit said in Oakland.

Voit won the home run title in a shortened season. Stanton won the title when he hit 59 for the Marlins in 2017. Judge hit 52 that year and led the American League. Big numbers. Big guys. Big team right now. With the Yankees right now, size really does seem to matter.