Best of the Yankees on WFAN: Is Aaron Judge satisfied?

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Aaron Judge opened some eyes with his comments on the Yankees offseason, leading to reactions from Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle, and Tommy Lugauer. Plus, did Brian Cashman slip up with some spring training comments of his own? And Shaun Morash ignited baseball fans with his Derek Jeter vs. Omar Vizquel take.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:01.1	Aaron Judge spoke today, and I found his comments to be very interesting.
0:09.2	Have you heard the audio yet?
0:10.8	I have.
0:11.3	You have?
0:12.2	Okay.
0:13.0	We're going to play the audio for you right now.
0:14.9	All right.
0:15.1	Can I do this then?
0:16.4	Is that fan focus?
0:17.5	Let's make us the fan focus then.
0:19.3	This fan focus is sponsored by Chef IQ, Precision Cooking, Eff results. Chef IQ.com. All right. So the only setup to this is, I guess is Aaron Judge's first time talking to the media. And I'm not sure of the questions in this, but he was essentially asked your thoughts on the off season and running it back. Can I do this then? Is that fan focus? Let's make us the fan focus now. This fan focus is sponsored by Chef IQ, precision cooking, effortless results. Chef IQ.com. All right. So the only setup to this is, I guess, is Aaron Judge's first time talking to the media. And I'm not sure of the questions in this, but he was essentially asked your thoughts on the off season and running you media and I'm not sure of the questions in this but he was essentially asked
0:55.3	your thoughts on the off season and running it back.
0:58.3	It was brutal.
0:59.9	You know, I'm like, I see a lot of free agents out there.
1:02.4	I see a lot of guys that, you know, like the Bellinger's, the Grishams, the Goldschman,
1:07.5	it's like, yeah, let's sign these guys right now and they start adding more pieces, you know, because I'm seeing other teams around the league get better. They're making trades. They're signing big prospects or big players. And, you know, we kind of, we're sitting there for a while, you know, kind of making smaller moves. But, you know, it was tough there in the beginning. But I think once we solidify getting Bellinger back, you know, we got Trent being our center fielder, be our lead off guy for another year. And then you had a guy like Goldie, some of the back end, you know, bullpen pieces that we've been doing. I think we're being a good spot, but early on it was pretty tough to watch. I'm like, man, we're the New York Yankees. You know, let's go out there and get the right people,
1:46.2	get the right pieces to go out there and finish this thing off
1:49.2	because we've got a special group of players here.
1:51.1	We've got a good core, good young core.
1:52.6	So, yeah, it was frustrating, but I think we're right where we need to be.
1:57.2	All right, so that's Aaron Judge, earlier today.
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