Aaron Judge to the Dodgers was never realistic, not because they weren’t interested, but because he was always going to get a huge, long contract, and Los Angeles was never likely to be the team to give it to him. Giving a player of his physical profile a contract that takes him into his late 30s isn’t the modus operandi of this current front office.
For the last several days, the question came down to: Will it be the Giants or the Yankees? And we got our answer Wednesday morning.