Aaron Judge bet on himself. Then he had the greatest contract year in baseball history. 'Those two numbers, the dingers and the dollars, defined Judge’s season,' writes ByMcCullough. And his reward? A massive payday from the Yankees.
When All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano left for Seattle after the 2013 season, the team almost welcomed his exit. That said less about Cano than it did about the state of the franchise. Cashman understood the organization required an overhaul, and a nine-figure commitment to Cano would not expedite that process. The reset led to the arrival of the so-called Baby Bombers, a youth movement that included potential future cornerstones like Judge, Gary Sanchez and Greg Bird.
Some executives even considered the proposed extension to be a risk — for the Yankees. But Judge treated it as a mere jumping off point, the start of the yearlong conversation about his worth. The lure of the Yankees was strong. There was the benefit of stability, the prospect of a captaincy. For Judge, it was still not enough.
He would not waver from that stance. “Every day’s a gamble,” Judge said at that Opening Day press conference. And this — the opportunity to showcase himself for the rest of the industry — did not worry him. He understood he offered a potent combination of remarkable production at the plate while maintaining a critical presence inside his clubhouse. Without Judge, the Yankees would have been adrift, even after a 99-win regular season this past summer.
To get his employers to recognize his stature, at least as Judge saw it, as a player like Betts or Trout, Judge completed a series of audacious acts. He terrorized opposing pitchers all season, broke Roger Maris’s American League record for home runs, and showed a new level of sophistication in both his hitting and his conditioning.
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