New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge recently admitted in spring training that he was very frustrated about the organization\u2019s slow pace to the offseason, calling it \u201cbrutal\u201d to follow, and his comments left Yankees play-by-play voice Michael Kay confused.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, it was brutal,\u201d Judge said on Monday<\/a>. \u201cI see a lot of free agents out there. I see a lot of guys, like the Bellingers, the Goldschmidts\u2026 Let\u2019s sign these guys right now and then start adding more pieces because I\u2019m seeing other teams around the league get better. They\u2019re making trades. They\u2019re signing big players, and we were sitting there for a while kind of making smaller moves.<\/p>\n \u201cEarly on, it was pretty tough to watch. I\u2019m like, man, \u2018We\u2019re the New York Yankees.\u2019 Let\u2019s go out there and get the right people, get the right pieces to go out there and finish this thing out because we\u2019ve got a special group of players here\u2026 We\u2019ve got a good core, a good young core. So it was frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n The Yankees did go on to re-sign Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt in January, and Judge admitted he had offered input to the higher-ups ahead of the moves: \u201cThey took care of business. They listened to my opinion about a couple of guys, Bellinger being one of the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n Judge\u2019s comments caught the attention of Yankees television play-by-play voice Michael Kay.<\/p>\n On Wednesday\u2019s edition of The Michael Kay Show on ESPN New York radio, Kay expressed his confusion over Judge\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n \u201cDidn\u2019t it seem somewhat to you passive-aggressive?\u201d Kay said in response to a caller about Judge\u2019s comments. \u201cLike, he was frustrated, but then he loves the team that they have. So, what was he frustrated about? Just the pace, that they didn\u2019t do things right away? If you\u2019re gonna lock in to getting Bellinger, then you\u2019re a victim to Scott Boras\u2019 whim. So, to me, it sounded almost passive-aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, when Judge talks, people listen, and he had some interesting to say,\u201d Kay added. \u201cHe sounded frustrated, but then he sounded satisfied. Little passive aggressive, but in the end, he said, \u2018I love this team,\u2019 and this is the team he wanted. So, I don\u2019t understand what Aaron is saying\u2026 Where would you have made the changes? Who would you have brought in that was available in the free agent market that would have changed the world?\u201d<\/p>\n Judge is the best hitter on the planet and has produced three seasons over the last four years in which he was valued at double-digit wins above replacement, resulting in being awarded the AL MVP in all of those three seasons. He\u2019s entering his age-34 season and has won zero World Series titles, so it would be understandable if he\u2019s losing some patience, especially while the Los Angeles Dodgers continue to tower over the Yankees<\/a> and the rest of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge recently admitted in spring training that he was very frustrated about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,5,3936,13577,4,1690,62,2548,2547,13578,142],"class_list":["post-583073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-brian-cashman","tag-michael-kay","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-the-michael-kay-show","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116103709763814573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}