Aaron Judge Returning to Yankees on $360 Million Deal
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone, speaking Tuesday before Judge had made a decision, said he had remained in touch with the outfielder this winter but did not have a good feel for which way his decision would go. When a rumor swept the winter meetings Tuesday that Judge was close to signing with San Francisco, Boone, who was in his hotel room, said he immediately phoned Cashman to ask what he knew.
“Nothing,” Cashman said, according to Boone.
From a long, wide-ranging conversation with Judge at season’s end, Boone said he knew the impending free agent was stung by the club’s decision in April to release details of the negotiations between the player and the team.
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“He and I talked a little bit about it right at season’s end, kind of walked through that a little bit,” Boone said. “So I knew that he was a little disappointed about that.”
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