Aaron Judge expected to sign before meetings end, said to be ’50-50′ between Giants, Yankees.
Once the hotbed of offseason activity, the MLB Winter Meetings return this week for the first time in three years. All eyes will be on Farhan Zaidi and the Giants, with big pockets and ambitions, as the baseball world descends on San Diego.
But the headlining act of these meetings figures to be Aaron Judge, whose decision — thought to be between the Giants and the Yankees — could come before the meetings wrap Thursday. Industry speculation all offseason has suggested the Giants would be one of the most active teams this winter, and Zaidi has backed that up with his words. At last month’s GM meetings in Las Vegas, he told reporters, “from a financial standpoint, there’s nobody that would be out of our capability to meet what we expect the contract demands will be.”
While Judge, the reigning AL MVP, would represent the single most impactful addition the Giants could make this offseason, he can’t be the only one, after San Francisco dropped off from 107 wins to missing the postseason.
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