Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees are currently in what appears to be a transitional moment for the team, following a rather terrible 2023 MLB season. Just a year after Judge set the all-time AL record for home runs in a season and led the Yankees to the ALCS, where they were defeated by the Houston Astros, New York failed to make the playoffs this season.
Of course, the Yankees’ biggest headline so far this summer has been the purchase of superstar Juan Soto from the San Diego Padres. Soto is now under contract for one year at a steep price of $31 million, raising the question of how much the Yankees are ready to commit to the former Washington Nationals World Series champion in the future.
Recently, Hal Steinbrenner, chairman and managing general partner of Yankee Global Enterprises, which owns the Yankees, sought to address that issue, especially if he would be willing to pay more money to Juan Soto than he is to Aaron Judge.
“I guess that’s an interesting question, but not one I’ve thought about,” Steinbrenner told Bryan Hoch of MLB on X, the social networking platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’m not sure Judge would mind if we got Juan Soto for many years to come. But the market is what it is, and he will charge what he does. We will just have to wait and see.
