TAMPA, Fla. — With 12 days left until opening day and Aaron Judge’s self-imposed deadline, the Yankees are preparing to make an offer to their slugger and his representatives. After failing to reach an agreement for a one-year contract for this season and potentially heading to arbitration, the Yankees have a very narrow window to try and get into agreement with the face of their franchise.
“Between now and opening day, obviously, we’ve said we’ll make an offer and he’ll obviously receive an offer and all conversations will have taken place and will either resolve into a multi-year deal or won’t,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said Saturday afternoon. “So I’m not going to say when or what it’s going to [be] and keep people updated. Again, I’ll restate what we said before: we will commit, we will make an offer and then hear what he has to say in response and then it’ll be penciled down, obviously. Before opening day. I think we all understand that too.”
The Yankees are looking to lock up Judge on a longer-term extension so that he won’t hit the free-agent market.
