After Yankees Performance Is Aaron Judge Questioning His Decision Of Sticking With Yankees?

Judge and the Yankees were swept in four games by the Houston Astros in the 2022 American League Championship Series before exploring free agency and allegedly considering signing with both the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres. Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner eventually retained the 2022 AL MVP via a nine-year, $360 million contract.

After Yankees Performance Is Aaron Judge Questioning His Decision Of Sticking With Yankees?

The 2023 Yankees were 35-25 when Judge began missing games on June 3 due to a damaged ligament in his big right toe. When he returned, the score in New York was 54-48 when he returned to the lineup in late July but failed to adequately right the ship before the club was eliminated from postseason contention this past weekend.

Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees’ star captain, does not think highly of the organization’s performance this season, calling it one of the worst he’s been a part of since his debut in 2016.

“I’ll take the ALCS losses over this year,” Judge told Randy Miller of NJ.com. “This isn’t the agonizing one blow where you know the season’s over, but more of a dragged out, painful death. But it’s all the same. We didn’t finish it, so it’s going to be tough no matter what.”

Judge’s remarks came after he referred to this season as “a failure.” He stated that “a lot of things need to change” after the Yankees were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention on Sunday.

Even though he and the Bronx Bombers will be spectators when the playoffs begin this time, All-Star slugger Aaron Judge believes he has no regrets about re-signing with the New York Yankees last summer.

“I know that I made the right decision,” Judge told Randy Miller of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. “I knew it wasn’t going to be all sunshine and rainbows and everybody’s going to ride into the sunset and get us back to the glory days. I knew there was going to be a lot of things that needed to be worked out, that there was going to be some tough times, some tough seasons. I know that this won’t be our only tough season.”

Judge has stated on several occasions that he wants manager Aaron Boone to preserve his position. From 2018 through 2022, Boone led the team to the playoffs every year. It’s unclear whether Steinbrenner will grant his captain’s demand after what the owner described as a “obviously unacceptable” season in an August interview with Mark Didtler of The Associated Press.

“I’ve been here with Boonie since 2018.” I think he’s definitely the right man for the job,” Judge said. “He knows his players. He knows how to talk to them. He knows when to push them. He knows when to have those tough conversations. I think it’s just about giving Boonie a good supporting cast, the right type of guys who are going  to run through a wall for him.”

Judge officially became the 16th captain in Yankees history immediately after signing his deal, and he stated that he thinks his role would help the franchise “fix things.”

 

 

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