Logan Webb and Aaron Judge briefly appeared poised to be teammates a few years ago, but now the two MLB superstars will have the chance to play on the same squad for Team USA in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

While Team USA is stacked with some of the game’s best players, Webb especially is looking forward to teaming up with the New York Yankees slugger and three-time American League MVP.

“Aaron Judge is probably obviously the main guy that I’m really excited to play with,” Webb told reporters at Giants Fan Fest in San Ramon Saturday. “I was involved in a lot of the Arson Judge situation, so I got to do the visit with him and I wanted to be his teammate then, and now I get to do it. So, it will be exciting. We’ve texted back and forth a little bit.

“It will be fun to just watch a lot of these guys take BP, let alone playing the game.”

Judge, who grew up a Giants fan, famously was linked to San Francisco during his free agency in 2022, when MLB reporter Jon Heyman tweeted “Arson Judge appears headed to the Giants” during the winter meetings, leading many to believe the franchise was on the cusp of landing one of the sport’s biggest stars.

Shortly thereafter, Judge re-signed with the Yankees, inking a nine-year $360-million dollar contract, extinguishing any hopes Webb had of having the superstar slugger as his Giants teammate.

Now Webb gets the opportunity to play with Judge while also having the honor of representing his country on baseball’s biggest world stage, a privilege he’s not taking lightly.

“It was something I wanted to do a couple years ago, something that just I feel like any time you get a chance to play for your country, I mean for all these guys,” Webb said. “Listening to [Jung Hoo Lee] talk about playing for the Korean team is really cool and I feel the same way about the USA team.

“I think [Team USA manager Mark DeRosa] texted me a lot over the last few years and I just kind of, I was actually with David Ross and Pat MacAfee when I was like ‘all right, I’ll do it.'”

With the World Baseball Classic running between March 5 to March 17, Webb will have a bit of an unorthodox offseason ramp up before his eighth MLB season. While Webb is trying to stick with the status quo with his preparation, he knows things will be different as he toes the rubber for Team USA.

“I’m excited about it, I’m trying to treat this offseason as normal as possible, but I definitely know there’s going to be more adrenaline going into spring time,” Webb explained.

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