Aaron Judge did not hide his excitement at being able to hear his name associated with the New York Yankees, not only at the start of Spring Training or one more season, but possibly for the rest of his career, something that qualifies as a feeling and feeling that “never goes out of style”.
The 30-year-old outfielder was greeted with applause by the crowd at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees’ spring complex located in Tampa, Florida, which he attended for the first time on Sunday. A fact that showed him that he made a good decision to stay with the New York team.
“Hearing your name announced as a New York Yankee player never gets old,” Judge said with a smile on his face. “If it’s in Tampa, if it’s in New York, that was something I didn’t want to stop hearing once I entered free agency. I was waiting to hear those words again. It was an exciting moment, I think.”
That moment and the subsequent words of the “Judge” show how excited he is to start his eighth season in the MLB, all with the Bronx Bombers uniform and now with a little more responsibility since he became the new team captain.
Although, despite being his eighth season and already with the leader sign, Judge is still that dreamy and enthusiastic young man who gets excited about everything, just like a rookie does, at least that’s how the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers perceived him. Yankees Aaron Boone in his first game of spring training.
“I felt like when I was talking to him the other day, telling him how, ‘We’re going to play that first game (in Tampa), right?’” Boone said. “And he was like, ‘Oh, yeah.'” So I know he was excited. He loves the game and obviously coming back here, being able to put the uniform back on and go out and play, I think that was something he was looking forward to.”
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