{"id":150804,"date":"2022-12-07T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-aaron-judge-agree-to-record-setting-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:58:57","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-agree-to-record-setting-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-aaron-judge-agree-to-record-setting-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Aaron Judge Agree To Record-Setting Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York Yankees are re-signing reigning American League MVP Aaron Judge<\/strong>reports Jon Morosi of MLB.com.<\/a> It’s a nine-year, $360MM contract, tweets<\/a> Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The agreement is still pending the completion of a physical.<\/p>\n

It’s the largest free-agent contract in MLB history, topping Bryce Harper<\/strong>‘s previous $330MM record. The $40MM average annual value on the contract establishes a new record among position players and trails only the matching $43.33MM AAVs of Max Scherzer<\/strong> and Justin Verlander<\/strong> \u2014 both of whom are on shorter-term deals \u2014 for the largest in MLB history. Judge is represented by Page Odle of PSI Sports Management.<\/p>\n

Judge’s decision to remain in New York puts an end to a weeks-long saga that saw him primarily fixed on the Yankees and Giants, his two most serious suitors from the moment he rejected a qualifying offer issued by the Yankees. The Giants were reported to have made a similar offer yesterday, and Morosi tweets<\/a> that he turned down higher offers after ultimately deciding he preferred to remain a Yankee. Judge will now likely spend his entire career in Yankee pinstripes, as the new contract will run through his age-39 season.<\/p>\n

Judge famously bet on himself heading into the 2022 season, turning down a seven-year, $213.5MM extension offer from the Yankees in Spring Training. General manager Brian Cashman took the virtually unprecedented step of announcing the terms of the Yankees’ final offer to the public, leaving no doubt as to the numbers that were offered. Judge’s gamble drew some scrutiny, but in the end, he secured himself an additional two years and a jaw-dropping $146.5MM \u2014 a 68.6% increase over the originally proposed guarantee.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

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