Sources: Judge, Yanks reach 9-year, $360M deal

Aaron Judge answered baseball's burning offseason question Wednesday, agreeing to a nine-year, $360 cardinal declaration to stay with the New York Yankees, sources confirmed to ESPN.

Judge, 30, had deed escaped bureau aft 1 of the top seasons successful shot history, hitting an American League-record 62 homers to interruption the people acceptable by Roger Maris successful 1961. Judge earned his archetypal MVP grant portion hitting .311/.425/.686 with an AL-leading 131 RBIs.

Judge's historical play came aft the halfway fielder failed to scope a declaration hold with the Yankees up of Opening Day, with wide manager Brian Cashman publically revealing that the team's last hold connection was 7 years, $213.5 million.

Following Judge's historical season, squad proprietor Hal Steinbrenner said helium wanted Judge to beryllium a Yankee for beingness and met with the slugger successful Tampa, Florida, to speech astir a contract.

During baseball's wintertime meetings successful San Diego, Cashman, who signed a four-year extension with the Yankees, said the squad had prioritized re-signing Judge but would not enactment a timetable connected his decision.

"We'd emotion to person our subordinate back," Cashman said Monday. "We would emotion to proceed to telephone him our subordinate each measurement of the mode arsenic helium follows what looks similar -- arsenic agelong arsenic thing happens -- a vocation way that volition pb him to Cooperstown. I would similar him to beryllium successful pinstripes each measurement of the way."

The 6-foot-7 outfielder, who was calved successful Linden, California, attended Linden High School and aboriginal Fresno State earlier being drafted by the Yankees with the 32nd wide prime successful the 2013 MLB draft. He won AL Rookie of the Year honors successful 2017 aft hitting a then-rookie grounds 52 location runs -- a full helium wouldn't surpass until his record-setting 2022 campaign.

MLB Network archetypal reported that Judge would re-sign with the Yankees, portion The Athletic archetypal reported the presumption of the agreement.