JUDGE CUTS TIES SOCIALLY WITH THE YANKEES

It's a ballsy move, but Aaron Judge is a free agent, so it makes perfect sense. 

It's just a shame it's so public. What we are about to see ladies and gentlemen is a top player, American League all-time Home Run leader and all-around nice guy, not to mention terrific clubhouse guy, enter a drag out fight for respect with the New York Yankees as he enters the open market. This will not be fun.

According to The Big Lead, but really, all you need to do is see it for yourself, Judge has unfollowed the Yankees on Instagram and Twitter. Game. On.

"Aaron Judge is now a free agent. While the Yankees would love to retain the 30-year-old slugger, they will have competition for his services. It appears Judge has begun the breakup, as he unfollowed the Yankees on Twitter and Instagram.

New York made several lowball offers to Judge earlier in the year, then executives spoke about them publicly. The Yankees screwed themselves by not locking up Judge a long time ago."

Let's call this what it is. Based on Judge's track record, the Yankees were not about to pay Judge the enormous amount he wanted before the season began. He got hurt alot, he wasn't hitting a TON of home runs. Makes sense. So they bet they'd have a nice negoiation at the end of the season with a good player... not a great one, a good one.

And then Judge went ham! 

Suddenly guys like Randy Levine and Hal Steinbrenner couldn't get ahead of it.  And so they made some offers, thinking "this guy's going To break down at some point" but he never did, capturing the home run crown.

In the end, the Yankees are going to have to pay up. But the problem is, and I firmly believe this, the Yankees are going to lose him. 

I wrote about this a few weeks ago. People were so focused on the playoffs it was probably forgotten, but the Giants are real competition with the Yankees, and they WILL do whatever it takes to get Aaron Judge.

Read MY SOURCE SAYS "JUDGE WILL BE A SAN FRANCISCO GIANT NEXT YEAR..."

"I have a source, a friend, that works for the San Francisco Giants. I will not reveal his name. I will only reveal what the buzz is and what he's hearing on the ground out there. He is not privy to private meetings. This is water cooler rumor, but still a pretty big one I want to share. The phrase he used with me is this:

"It's very real. Judge will be a San Francisco Giant next year."

I asked him why. He would not tell me. I asked him to give me more. He said he didn't have anything more. He told me to "trust him" and said it will come down to the contract, something Judge "could not walk away from."

And the truth is the Yankees will need to pony up or the already unhappy fan base will dwindle as well. 

Here's the bottom line; we have a manager that no one likes. We have a ballpark that costs a family of 4 nearly $1200 a visit for 1 game. You have no championship in recent years and if you lose Aaron Judge, a guy that should be captain and should be locked in till the end of his career, THERE IS NOTHING WORTH ROOTING FOR. 

Yankee brass needs to think long and hard about what they want, because what we have right now? It ain't working.