(San Diego) Aaron Judge agreed to return to the New York Yankees for the next nine seasons and $360 million ($490 million CAD), the Associated Press learned from a person familiar with the negotiations.
This person requested anonymity as the deal has not been officially announced.
Judge will earn $40 million per season, the highest average annual salary for a positional player. The contract is the third most lucrative in baseball, behind the $426.5 million signed by Mike Trout from the Los Angeles Angels and the $365 million awarded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to Mookie Betts.
The Yankees had offered $213.5 million seven years before the last campaign, a contract that would cover the 2023 to 2029 seasons. He turned down the offer hours before Game 1 in April.
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Instead, the 1.80 meter colossus took a gamble on it. He won hands down.
Judge set an American League record 62 home runs, leading the Yankees to an All-American East title. He also finished tied for the lead in the Majors with 131 RBIs and missed the Triple Crown with a .
The Yankees, however, were defeated by the Houston Astros in the All-American Championship Series. A few weeks later, Judge became the first MVP to come from the New York organization since Alex Rodriguez in 2007.
The referee’s decision will have a domino effect on multiple teams and free agents. His status has delayed at least some of the Yankees’ plans, given the size of the contract. General Manager Brian Cashman made it clear, however, that the team would wait while the judge weighed his options.
In the end, this approach proved to be the right one.
“We’re going to wait and hope that this process is completed,” Cashman said Monday at the winter conference in San Diego. It means staying active in negotiations and discussions. 🇧🇷
The 30-year-old judge was selected in the first round of the 2013 draft by the Yankees. He made his major league debut in 2016, hitting a home run in his first at bat.
A year later, he was one of baseball’s rising stars. 284/0.422/0.627 with 52 home runs and 114 RBIs, en route to All-American Rookie honors. The one who has appeared in four All-Star Games so far has 220 home runs and 497 RBIs in seven MLB seasons.
“A guy of that stature, you want him to spend his entire career in the shadow of Monument Park and walk into the Hall of Fame in a Yankees uniform,” coach Aaron Boone said Tuesday.
Judge’s average annual salary is second only to the $43.3 million per season earned by Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander with the New York Mets, although Verlander’s deal, closed on Monday, has yet to be finalized. A source told the Associated Press that the right-hander would earn $86.7 million over two years.
Ronald Blum contributed to this article from Qatar.
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