Asked about Aaron Judge and his pending free agency on The Show with Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman, Yankees president Randy Levine had this to say about the superstar who is quickly approaching one of the most illustrious records in franchise history.
“We’ll talk about with him and his representatives this offseason: how do we keep him?” Levine said. “Then it will be up to him. Does he want to stay here? Does he want to go some place else? Is somebody offering him a better deal?
“I think it will be extraordinarily competitive. I think Hal has been competitive…It’s never been a question of not wanting Aaron Judge. We think he’s one of the best players in baseball and just a question of getting to yes.”
If you ask Tiki and Tierney, that response was hardly inspiring to believe that the Yanks are ready to do whatever they can to keep their homegrown superstar and face of the franchise.
“That’s not nearly definitive or aggressive enough,” BT said.
Tiki agreed that it did little to inspire hope that the Yankees are ready to go all in to keep the only Baby Bomber that blossomed into a superstar, and even believes that Judge is probably insulted by how the team has handled his contract negotiations.
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“It’s passive,” Tiki said. “When you have a player who has been as dominant this season as Aaron Judge has been, who has been so valuable o the fanbase and the reason you go to the ballpark…to passively say ‘Yeah, we’re gonna try,’ it feels demeaning to who he is and what he means to the Yankees team. I know he feels that way and feels disrespected.
“The only way to overcome that…is they’re gonna have to come correct. They can’t give him the ‘fair’ or ‘competitive’ offer. They need to give him the elite offer. That’s the only thing that’s gonna keep Judge a Yankee for life.”
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