Because the season was good and not great, I believe that Aaron Judge is beloved by the fans more than the fans base loves the organization as a whole. Judge did something not done in a long time, and he did it because he was healthy and on the field every day. He had a miraculous season, he's got class. He rallies a team. He's a professional. He's a captain even though the Yankees are dragging their feet with that. All in all, he is what we want in a player.
Right now, Twitter is the biggest shit storm out there. People are making up stories about players going to this team or that, guys like Jon Heyman totally destroyed his reputation (although I have always predicted his actual knowledge as a baseball insider for years here on BYB as being horrendous) by tweeting that Judge was going to the Giants before he actually was. It's really a sewer on there. I am counting the days until I decide I'm leaving Twitter, because I literally get 3% of my readership from there. Facebook? About 40%. And of course, the rest just go straight to Bleeding Yankee Blue on their own because we are honest, fair, and we don't hold back. That's why certain players don't like us, it's why some fans don't like us and it's why the Yankees and BYB will never have a close relationship. Plain and simple we call out the Yankees bullshit and aren't looking for access. We just want to do honest reporting here. But now I'm going off the rails...
Look, Aaron Judge is loved in New York. And now as a free agent it has gotten nasty. But that's the business. I remember what Derek Jeter said when he entered free agency. In a 2010 article from the New York Post:
"I was angry about it because I was the one who said I wasn’t going to (shop around),” Jeter said. “To hear the organization say go shop it and I just told you I wasn’t going to. Yeah, to be honest with you, I was angry about it.’’
Asked whom specifically whom he was angry at, Jeter said, “I’m not going to point the finger at anyone. We’re one big happy family.”Jeter said he also was upset with how public things became between the two sides, when it was reported that Jeter’s agent, Casey Close, asked for significantly more than the Yankees were willing to offer.
“I’m angry at the process and how I was portrayed,” Jeter said. “I heard about greed and all of a sudden I had an ego and arrogance.”
“We kind of said, ‘Hey, let’s keep this between us,’” Judge said. “I was a little upset that the numbers came out. I understand it’s a negotiation tactic. Put pressure on me. Turn the fans against me, turn the media on me. That part of it I didn’t like.”
“I said, in 10 years, I’ll be married to Sam and playing for the San Francisco Giants.” Judge said. “I was like, that’d better not get out.”
It’s out now and it has to give Yankees fans a queasy feeling about their chances of re-signing the 30-year-old. Cashman said at the winter meetings on Monday the Yankees had made several offers to Judge, but he had no insight as to if they were the favorites to re-sign him."
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