 Bob I can tell you there are a lot of people in Yankee land that are breathing a sigh of relief right now yesterday The Yankees front office legitimately did not know which way this was going to go late in the evening We started to hear whispers that there was another team involved in the Padres and that there was a four in front of it and Jack at that point in time Aaron Boone actually made a phone call to Aaron Judge to try to talk to him one last time To make his case for him coming back to the New York Yankees and ultimately as Michael mentioned the finances a big part of it It needed to work in that capacity But the Yankees went for the full-court press and Hal Steinbrenner came up in a big way And because of all the things that you just mentioned Meredith and a lot of things that happened leading up to that This is one of the more fascinating and yet also secretive Negotiations that I think I've ever covered if we flash back to Sunday the Yankees were around eight years 300 million They went up to eight years three 20 and then Hal Steinbrenner has a phone conversation with Aaron Judge Michael reference that earlier And while he's in Italy he says do you want to be a Yankee and judge says I do but I've got this offer from the Padres That is a ten-year offer. Well, it turns around and he says we'll do 360 judge says I'll take 360 and the player that the Yankees could not afford to lose. There was no plan B We've all talked about what was plan B There wasn't a plan D plan A needed to occur and the Yankees were able to retain him so important to this Yankee Seem obviously we saw what he could do live over the past couple years last year in particular with a 62 home runs the power is There he is a fan favorite He is so important to this organization and we spoke with Brian Cashman and I asked him Do you think Aaron Judge will be named the captain and while he said that certainly is a Hal Steinbrenner Decision do you expect that to come soon? I do and I remember going back to the interview You did with Hal earlier in the off-season where you asked him that question And I think this is part and parcel of who Aaron Judge is for this Yankee organization He has already been their unofficial captain if you talk to players and personnel around the Yankees They talk about how big an influence he is in the clubhouse and on the field how he welcomes players So Meredith we've talked throughout this negotiation about how important is it for Aaron Judge to be a New York Yankee? There's legacy there. There's the potential Monument Park plaque. There's the captaincy Maybe there's Cooperstown as Brian Cashman referenced earlier So I think that the Yankees are very happy, but also very relieved today You and I spoke to some of them last night and I remember one official at one point Putting his hands together almost in a prayer like gesture to say we need to have this guy back the Yankees