{"id":395069,"date":"2022-12-07T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395069"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:39:56","slug":"top-free-agent-aaron-judge-returns-to-yankees-sources","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/top-free-agent-aaron-judge-returns-to-yankees-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0422\u043ep free agent Aaron Judge returns to Yankees &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Judge, who hit free agency after one of the greatest seasons in baseball history, will return to the New York Yankees after agreeing to a nine-year, $360 million deal, according to sources.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Judge back in the Bronx a Giant blow to San Francisco! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AaronJudge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AaronJudge<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RepBX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RepBX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dXCp8vMBEg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dXCp8vMBEg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Out In The Field (@OutInField_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OutInField_\/status\/1600483666412507137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Judge set an American League record with 62 homers in 2022 to break the 61-year-old record held by Roger Maris, powering the Yankees to the AL East title.<\/p>\n<p>He also tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs and just missed a Triple Crown with a .311 batting average.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Judge, who became the first AL MVP for the Yankees since Alex Rodriguez in 2007. will earn $40 million per season, the highest average annual payout for a position player.<\/p>\n<p>The contract trails only Mike Trout\u2019s $426.5 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels and Mookie Betts\u2019 $365 million pact with the Los Angeles Dodgers for biggest in baseball history.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7 Judge was offered a long-term deal by New York before last season that was worth $213.5 million over seven years from 2023-29. But he turned it down in the hours before opening day in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Judge, who hit free agency after one of the greatest seasons in baseball history, will return to the New York Yankees after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395070,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16901,17073,16902],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 30-year-old agreed nine-year, $360 million deal","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395069"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395069"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}