![]() And any sense that people feel like this was a player we needed and we can’t win without him, I think just creates extra motivation.” … I think athletes always look for every additional source of motivation. I think, if anything, it provides a little extra motivation for us and for the guys on this team. “We tried to sign him, but he’s the opposition now. “I think it’s going to be fun,” Zaidi said. The Yankees certainly were likely to have the upper hand with their own free agent, and Zaidi knows it’s a spicy subplot. President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and the front office pulled out all the stops for Judge, who visited Oracle Park and got VIP treatment to go with a giant offer: nine years, $360 million. ![]() “To me, Aaron Judge is the Yankees’ captain, so I don’t have much thought other than trying to get him out.” I think that was tough on the fan base, but hopefully they’re over that and excited about the group of guys we do have. The way things unfolded, it sounded like at one point, we were going to get both guys and we got neither. As players, we deal with a lot of rumors and you’re never really fully excited until things actually happen. “We had a slight glimmer of hope with him this offseason,” Cobb said of Judge, “but I think as a fan base, it’s probably more exciting. “I’m thinking of it as, ‘Hey, I’m facing the MVP from last year’ more than anything else.”Īlex Cobb, who is penciled in for Game 2 if his bruised left knee allows, feels the same way about Judge and the other high-profile free agent the Giants didn’t sign, Carlos Correa, whose medical results sent things sideways at the last minute. ![]() “The thing is, we tried to recruit half the top free agents, so facing (Judge) isn’t different from facing any of those other guys,” Webb said.
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