TAMPA — Aaron Judge is coming off a season in which he led the American League in homers, but he won’t be leading the league in salary anytime soon. The AL Rookie of the Year is set to make $622,300 with the Yankees this season, according to the Associated Press Thursday.
Judge won’t be eligible for salary arbitration until after the 2019 season.
Luis Severino, who finished third in the AL Cy Young Award vote last year, is set to make $604,975, while Greg Bird will make $582,000 and Jordan Montgomery $580,450.
Those price tags are the key to the Yankees reaching their goal of staying under the $197 million luxury-tax threshold.