Since the start of the Aaron Judge derby, I have a feeling the outfielder is going to get his best offer from the Giants. After all, the club needs him and has the money.
The Yankees too, you will tell me, have money and need it. It’s true.
That said, I have a feeling they know Judge is better off staying in New York for his baseball legacy and the offer will be smaller as a result.
And right now, nothing takes that feeling away from me.
The Yankees are known to have an eight-year, $300 million offer on the table for the Judge. Has it been improved since? Who knows.
We also know that he should sign for nine years and it seems that the Giants already have such an offer on the table at #99.
Yes, Judge might have mystery teams around him, but I have a feeling it’s really only between the Giants and the Yankees that it’s played out.
I would be on the ass to see it elsewhere.
And right now, I really feel that the Giants’ option is more than serious. I still have the feeling that he will sign in New York, but publicly, the file seems complex.
First, I find it rather special that the Yankees do not know if and when Aaron Judge will be present at the winter meetings. Doesn’t he keep them posted?
However, I wonder if the Giants, who want to add outfielders en masse, are aware of this data.
But above all, as in the Jacob deGrom file, it seems that Aaron Judge did not promise “the last word” to the Yankees.
Often, when a player really wants to get back with his old team, he applies what looks like Maxi’s unbeatable price policy: he goes to see his old team with the best offer… and they match it.
If she wants, of course. It’s not as fixed a policy as the grocery store.
But it looks like the outfielder clan didn’t promise the Yankees that. Doesn’t mean he won’t, but it doesn’t smell good.
Are these just negotiation techniques? I do not know. Perhaps even. But with his signing looming, Yankees fans may be starting to worry a little more.
