family and friends.
Why is he not at their house,
are they already family and
friends?
He's already regarding the
Giants, his family and former
Yankee fan.
I'm freaking out.
He looks excited.
Was did not have an entourage of
people with him.
He had plenty of change of
clothes.
I didn't notice that he's
staying for a minute.
He might be staying for uh he
didn't have just a carry on and
he had plenty of luggage with
him at the end of the day.
Xavier, if you have an iconic
player That has done something
we've never seen before, a clean
player not connected to ped said
62 home runs has his own crowd
section at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankee Stadium.
This is the number one brand in
the sport and you allow him to
get to this stage to walk into a
hotel lobby with another major
market team in a state of which
he was born and raised.
Did the Yankees screw up?
Even if they end up keeping
Aaron Judge, Was this a dramatic
miscalculation by the new york
Yankees?
I don't think that's necessarily
so I look at before the season
started, nobody knew what Aaron
Judge was going to do.
213 and a half million dollars
sounded about right at the time
to most two most people I
thought it was dramatically Lowe
Well, it I thought he needed to
show another year of what he has
now shown now.
He's shown that he is one of the
most best players in all of
baseball.
So now I think he can ask for
any type of price that he's
looking to ask for.
But I don't think beforehand you
say the Yankees necessarily
screwed it up, especially if he
still has the opportunity to
sign back.
I think they messed up for this
, those numbers right there,
it's that they might have
miscalculated on this one.
You see those numbers.
But I think one of the things,
as we all know, Aaron Judge is
the face of the Yankees.
We all know that he has star
power, we all know that he can
put up big numbers.
I don't know if we knew it was
gonna be these numbers, you knew
he was going to put up big
numbers.
So when you saw the numbers that
cash, when those guys offered
him, you knew judge when he was
leaning towards, hey, that's not
enough.
I almost feel like you got to
say, okay, let's figure out a
number and get this deal done.
Now let's go in and see if
you're gonna maybe win the
triple crown, hit 62 home runs
and take your talent to another
level because now he's allowed
to go to san Francisco or the
Dodgers or out west and have
them maybe overbid for him where
the Yankees say we're not going
to pay that the rules were set
in place by Aaron Judge that if
there were, there was no deal
done by opening day, I'm not
going to do this, I'm going to
wait to win a free agent.
But that is an invisible rule.
That's a rule that one person
said, you know, hey no more high
five sean okay, that's if you
don't high five me before 5:30
p.m. Eastern, I don't want
another high five.
But at around 6 20 if I see your
smiling face and you put up a
high five like you're high
fiving like right, it's an
invisible rule.
So when we saw him taking over
the game in the second half of
the season, he's the number one
player in the sport.
Sorry Shohei unbelievable.
But it's Aaron Judge is year
break the invisible rule.
I know that you can't let him
get into a hotel lobby and meet
with the san Francisco giants.
Don't allow this to happen if
you really want to keep him.
And that's where we're at.
That's the question, do the
Yankees really want to keep him
for the price tag he's going to
earn.
And I think that is the biggest
question because you look at
what you can do to allocate some
of those funds somewhere else.
But I don't think you can not
afford to sign this guy right?
Really?
He was most of the offense last
year.
He carried your team for a
certain amount of time.
If this guy is not back, you can
expect to be a much worse team,
you're not going to get any
better in a sense because you're
not going to bring anybody else
in, that's gonna be able to
duplicate what Aaron Judge has
done.
The one thing I think is
interesting before the season
started is the Yankees almost
took in the idea of the risk of
his health factor right as he is
he going to show us another full
season of playing?
Think that was one of the
questions they had as to not
give him the money that he was
exactly looking for.
I think one of the biggest
things here because it's the
Yankees and I think the bottom
line is this when you look at
the Yankees, you always look,
there's star power.
There's some guys always driving
the bus like and I always think
if Aaron Judge is there, that
captain is eventually coming and
coming his way.
So when I see Aaron Judge, it's
more than the numbers for me,
it's the Yankees, it's the
symbol, it's the, it's the icon
, he's that kind of player.
So I think if you lose Aaron
Judge, if you're the Yankees,
it's a little bit like losing
Jeter in his prime.
I really feel like that, that's
how the yankee fans see Judge
right now that he can be that
iconic player, is there a price
ceiling for the new york Yankees
or will they just blow past any
rules in place that you have to
pay a penalty because luxury
taxes in play and do the Yankees
operate now with the ceiling
because if they operate with the
ceiling and they're always going
to be one of the top three
payrolls in the game then best
case scenario is they sign Aaron
Judge to this historic contract
and they have an outfielder
slash D.H. Making more money per
year than any position player
Now, what will that do to the
rest of the rosters?
What we just witnessed is what