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NEW YORK — In the future, ballplayers will speak of Aaron Judge’s 2022 in hushed tones: He set the American League home run record, with 62; he won the AL MVP award; he finished within five points of batting average of the Triple Crown. Player agents should extend the same awe to the year his representatives just had.
Judge’s longtime agent, Page Odle, runs a small shop called PSI Sports whose second-biggest client is probably Mariners second baseman Kolten Wong. But Odle understood from the beginning his player’s goal—“He wanted to be a Yankee,” Odle says. “If you get anything from me today, that is what he wanted”—and Odle helped set him up to achieve it.
