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AP source: Aaron Judge, Yankees reach $360M, 9-year deal

By RONALD BLUM and status held up at least some
JAY COHEN of New York’s offseason
AP Baseball Writers plans given the size of the
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Aaron contract but general man-
Judge has issued his ruling: ager Brian Cashman made
Court remains in session in it clear his team would wait
the Bronx. patiently while Judge con-
Judge is staying with the templated his options.
New York Yankees on a In the end, that approach
$360 million, nine-year con- worked.
tract, according to a per- “So we’ll wait, we’ll wait for
son familiar with baseball’s this process to play out,”
biggest free agent deal Cashman said Monday at
ever. baseball’s winter meetings
The person spoke to The As- in San Diego. “And that
sociated Press on Wednes- means staying active in the
day on condition of ano- conversations and nego-
nymity because the AL tiations.” Judge, 30, was se-
MVP’s contract had not lected by New York in the
been announced. first round of the 2013 am-
Judge, who hit an Ameri- ateur draft and made his
can League record 62 hom- big league debut in 2016,
ers last season, will earn $40 homering in his first at-bat.
million per year, the highest New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge watches his solo home run ball during the second inning of A year later, he was one of
average annual payout for Game 5 of an American League Division baseball series against the Cleveland Guardians, Oct. baseball’s breakout stars.
a position player. The con- 18, 2022, in New York. Associated Press He hit .284 with 52 homers
tract trails only Mike Trout’s and 114 RBIs in 2017, win-
$426.5 million deal with the $213.5 million over seven 131 RBIs and just missed a an extra two guaranteed ning the AL Rookie of the
Los Angeles Angels and years from 2023-29. But the Triple Crown with a .311 seasons. The Northern Cali- Year award.
Mookie Betts’ $365 million outfielder turned it down in batting average. fornia native also visited The four-time All-Star has
pact with the Los Ange- the hours before opening New York was swept by with the San Francisco Gi- 220 homers and 497 RBIs in
les Dodgers for biggest in day in April. Houston in the AL Cham- ants last month, and there seven big league seasons.
baseball history. Trout and The 6-foot-7 Judge bet on pionship Series, but Judge likely were more teams “A guy of his stature and his
Betts were already under himself and won. became the first AL MVP monitoring the market for greatness hopefully spends
contract when they signed Judge surpassed Roger for the Yankees since Alex the slugger who turns 31 in his entire career into Monu-
those deals. Maris’ AL home run mark Rodriguez in 2007. April. ment Park and into the
The Yankees made a long- to power New York to an By rejecting the Yankees’ Judge’s decision will have Hall of Fame as a Yankee,”
term offer to Judge before AL East title. He also tied for preseason offer, Judge a domino effect on several New York manager Aaron
last season that was worth the major league lead with gained $146.5 million and teams and free agents. His Boone said Tuesday. q

Bradley, Froch, Rafael Marquez top boxing Hall of Fame class

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — with Pacquiao, finishing 33- he later avenged in 2013 to Alicia Ashley, a Jamaican en to fight especially in my
Timothy Bradley Jr. and Ra- 2-1 with one no-contest. He give him two belts in the di- who became the oldest country of Mexico, where I
fael Marquez, two-division is now an analyst for ESPN. vision. He defended them woman to win a title at 48 fought for women’s rights,”
champions whose exciting Marquez (41-9, 37 KOs) is both twice before retiring and boxed until she was 50. said Serrano, whose suc-
styles earned both of them best known for his four-fight in 2014 at 33-2 with 24 KOs. “I dedicated my whole cess helped lead to a re-
“Fight of the Year” honors, series with Israel Vazquez. The native of Britain has life to boxing and I did my versal of a ban on women’s
and Carl Froch were in- Marquez whose brother since worked for Sky Sports. best in those days when it boxing in Mexico City.q
ducted Wednesday to the Juan Manuel Marquez was “Boxing is the best sport in was very difficult for wom-
International Boxing Hall of inducted in 2020 took the the world,” Froch said in
Fame. first bout by seventh-round comments provided by the
The three fighters will make stoppage to win a super Hall. “It tests everything in
up the men’s modern cate- bantamweight title after a man and a woman. The
gory when the 10-member previously holding a belt at mentality, discipline, grit,
class of 2023 is enshrined bantamweight. Vazquez determination, heart, de-
next June. came back to win the next sire, everything is all in that
Bradley won his first two they were voted Fight ring and it is just you on your
140-pound title in 2008 and of the Year in 2007 and own with your opponent.”
moved up to take a wel- 2008 and Marquez evened The inductees were se-
terweight title from Manny things up with a third-round lected by vote of the Box-
Pacquiao by split decision knockout in 2010. ing Writers Association of
in 2012. Bradley defended Froch was among the top America.
the title by outlasting Rus- super middleweights of his Inducted from the women’s
lan Provodnikov in what era. His only losses were to modern category were
was voted the Fight of the unbeaten Andre Ward in Laura Serrano, Mexico’s
Year in 2013. Bradley would the finals of a tournament first female boxing cham- Timothy Bradley Jr. poses at a news conference ahead of a fight
against Manny Pacquiao, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Beverly
eventually suffer his only for a 168-pound title, and pion and the first women’s Hills, Calif.
two losses in rematches to Mikkel Kessler in a defeat boxing Hall of Famer, and Associated Press