{"id":642161,"date":"2026-03-25T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/642161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:23:16","slug":"brian-sabean-has-watched-aaron-judge-fulfill-his-mvp-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/642161\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Sabean has watched Aaron Judge fulfill his MVP promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 For the second time in four years, Aaron Judge and the Yankees will play the Giants on Opening Day, this time in San Francisco on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>And while longtime scout and executive Brian Sabean has had a front row seat to the Aaron Judge Show since returning to the Yankees early in 2023 as an advisor to general manager Brian Cashman, he and his staff had a chance to draft him in 2013, when the Giants selected 25th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Sabean, then the GM of the Giants, and his staff picked Christian Arroyo, while the Yankees went with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/06\/07\/yankees-snag-third-baseman-jagielo-with-top-pick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third baseman Eric Jagielo with the next pick<\/a> (No. 26) before selecting Judge at 32.<\/p>\n<p>All these years later \u2014 and entering his fourth season on the same side as Judge \u2014 Sabean was asked this spring whether San Francisco thought about taking the 6-foot-7 slugger out of Fresno State, who grew up in northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 For the second time in four years, Aaron Judge and the Yankees will play the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,66,185,428,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-642161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-san-francisco-giants","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116288383340934299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642161","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=642161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}