ESPN: Yankees skipper Aaron Judge, the current American League MVP has some bitter response for former teammate Juan Soto.
The 2025 season will mark the 63rd season for the New York Mets, who have been in Major League Baseball since 1962. The Mets have won the World Series twice and the National League pennant five times during that span. Since 1903, the New York Yankees have been in existence. The Yankees have been around for so long that they weren’t even known by that name at first. The squad was known as the New York Highlanders for the first ten years.
The squad that would later become known as the Bronx Bombers played in the Washington Heights district of New York in a wooden stadium called Hilltop Park, which was aptly named after the largest hill in Manhattan. They relocated to a flatter part of Washington Heights in April 1913, sharing a ballpark with the New York Giants called the Polo Grounds. Consequently, they abandoned the moniker “Highlanders” and changed their identity to the New York Yankees.
Three years after acquiring the contract of a boisterous but incredibly gifted player named George “Babe” Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees relocated to the Bronx in 1923 and established a brand-new, cutting-edge (for the early 1920s) park that they duly named “Yankee Stadium.” The Yankees have been the most successful team in baseball ever since. The Yankees have made 41 World Series appearances and won 27 titles. As the only team in Major League Baseball history to win four consecutive World Series, the Yankees have done so twice, including when they began winning five straight in 1949.
On a 15-year, $765 million free agent contract, Juan Soto played for the Yankees for just one season in 2024 before joining the Mets. When he said in December that he chose the Mets because they “have the best chance to win,” the Bronx was incredulous. Yankees skipper Aaron Judge, the current American League MVP (he also won the award in 2022), had some things to say about his former colleague in his first public remarks of spring training on Monday.
That’s what he believes. In a video that SNY uploaded on X, Judge stated, “He can say whatever he wants, and I definitely disagree with it.” “I wasn’t too surprised by it, I think that’s where he wanted to be.” Known for being one of the kindest individuals in Major League Baseball, Judge quickly added that he had no grudges toward Soto, stating, “I’m happy for him.” Soto’s return to Yankee Stadium on May 16th, the first of six games between the Mets and Yankees in 2025, puts the Soto-Judge drama on a “To Be Continued” placard.
