Why Did Aaron Judge Decided To Stick With Yankees? One Of The Biggest Contracts In The MLB History

Staying put in the Bronx is Aaron Judge. According to numerous rumors, the all-star slugger and current AL MVP is re-signing with the New York Yankees on a nine-year, $360 million contract.

Aaron Judge Re-signs With Yankees One Of The Biggest Contracts In The MLB History

Aaron Judge had good reason to leave his team, possibly to join the San Francisco Giants, whom he had grown up rooting for while living in California, and who made a strong effort to sign him. Those explanations would have been private and totally within the judge’s discretion. But from a distance, the Yankees had always made the most sense for him.

Why? they are the Yankees, thus. To put it another way, it would have been unexpected—even shocking—if Judge had ended up somewhere else if this franchise, the only one for which he has ever played. All things being equal, we would anticipate that to happen if the biggest team has the biggest star in the game and wants to keep him.

We must consider how the Yankees’ place in MLB’s power structure while evaluating the agreement. Simply put, the Yankees’ decision to sign Judge for those many years and that much money earns them a different grade than the majority of other teams in the majors, even high-revenue teams like the Giants or Los Angeles Dodgers.

Without a doubt, losing Judge would have diminished the Yankees’ standing as a team. The team’s efforts to end a 13-year World Series title drought would have been jeopardized by the loss, and not just because Judge may very well be the finest player in the league at the moment. Unexpected doubts about the corporate culture and the franchise’s appeal to free agents would also cast a shadow. It’s possible that the legendary Yankees mystique has been consigned to history.

In 2022, Judge blasted his 62nd home run of the year against the Texas Rangers in the season’s last series, shattering the generally acknowledged single-season home run record.

His 62nd home run broke Roger Maris’s 1961 record of 61 home runs, which had stood for the preceding decade.

Judge now has the largest annual salary of any position player in history, with a $40 million contract value. Mike Trout’s 2019 contract, which will pay the Los Angeles Angels outfielder about $34,5 million per season until 2031, set the previous record.

 

 

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