The stories in free agency do not always end with happy endings like Juan Soto’s, to give an extreme example, and are never a guarantee that every player who decides to go that route to find a team, will eventually get one.
This is exactly what happened to Mexican-born outfielder Alex Verdugo, who thought it would be a better option to go to free agency than to negotiate a contract extension with the New York Yankees. However, he did not have all the arguments to be able to demand in this way, since although he had a good postseason, the same cannot be said of his regular season, which was rather average, with a .233 batting average, 13 home runs, more than 150 RBIs and an OPS of .647.
Aaron Judge wanted to be kind and empathetic to Verdugo
Verdugo’s future is uncertain and the Yankees’ star slugger Aaron Judge is aware of this, so true to his habit of being empathetic as the good Christian that he is, he recently expressed his feelings for him, saying: “I’m surprised. He’s a great player. He brings a lot of value and versatility to the team“.
However, Judge’s plan backfired, as there are many voices among the Yankees faithful who still do not forgive him for his ‘mistake’ in the last game of the World Series against the Dodgers, and take advantage of any issue to continue throwing biting comments and ironies about anything he says.
The master’s eye makes the horse fat
On this occasion, they reproached him for the fact that he took it upon himself to ‘evaluate’ Verdugo’s talent, who for some reason lost much of his value, which reached $8.7 million, and today is out of the Yankees just before the season begins, on March 27 against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium.
And when the numbers speak, the subjectivity of the analysis from within and even worse, the empathy of a good Christian like Judge, are superfluous. Especially because being aware that tempers are still not calm after the loss of last year’s Fall Classic, Judge should just concentrate on doing his thing.
Do fans have a point in this particular matter?
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