Aaron Judge still recalls the details of his call with Hal Steinbrenner — the “wild” one that made him the 16th captain in Yankees history — vividly.
Nearly six months later, Aaron Judge still recalls the details of his call with Hal Steinbrenner — the “wild” one that sealed his return to the Yankees and made him the 16th captain in Yankees history — vividly.
Judge was staying at his parents’ house in California overnight while he and his wife, Samantha, prepared to fly to Hawaii.His free-agent journey, and all the pursuit that came with hitting 62 home runs in the final year of a deal, had unfolded with various teams, but when Judge hopped on the call with Steinbrenner, he told the Yankees owner that “I don’t want to go anywhere. I want to stay here. What are we gonna do?”during a recent episode of Bleacher Report’s “On Base with Mookie Betts.
Aaron Judge describes his phone call with Hal Steinbrenner that finalized his return to the Yankees and also involved him being named captain
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