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The Yankees captain wants the Dominican to think things through.
Aaron Judgerecently appointed American League MVP in the 2024 Major League Baseball seasonexpressed that has not communicated with Juan Soto about the decision he will make now that he is a free agent.
I haven’t talked to him at all. I think the best thing is to give those guys space,” Judge said of Soto, in a conference call that was organized for the MVP award he received on Thursday.
Although For now Judge has given Soto space to analyze your options, That doesn’t mean I don’t want him back. as a member of the ninth New York Yankees.
I talked to him all season. He knows how we feel about him. And I think the most important thing now is to let him do his thing with his family, pray about it, talk to people and make the right decision for him and his family. So I haven’t talked to him at all.”
Judge is the most coveted free agent on the market. It is known that he has met with five teams and could be reaching a contract of 650 million dollars, only below Shohei Ohtani.
JUDGE BEATS SOTO FOR THE AMERICAN MVP
In the American League the predictions were fulfilled and Aaron Judge He was also unanimously recognized with his second MVP in the last three years.
The Judge, 32 years old, He surpassed the Dominican Juan Soto in the votethe other figure of the Yankees, who this year advanced to their first ‘Fall Classic’ since 2009.
Judge finished the season as the home run leader of the Major League Baseball (MLB), with a total of 58, and became the second ‘Yankee’ to be unanimous MVP after the legendary Mickey Mantle in 1956.
It means a lot, it’s a lot of hard work before the season,” said a Judge eager for revenge after the loss to the Dodgers for the championship.
“It makes you want it more,” he admitted. “It makes you get up early and get things going already in the offseason to put yourself back in that position and change the outcome next year.”
He Californian slugger had already received the MVP in 2022when he broke the American League home run record with 62.
He Dominican Juan Soto, who shone with 41 home runs In his first and perhaps only season with the ‘Bronx Bombers’, he was third in the voting with 229 points, behind Judge (420) and the American Bobby Witt Jr. (270), of the Kansas City Royals.
