Aaron Decide rejected a suggestion of over $400 million from the San Diego Padres this offseason to stick with the New York Yankees, in line with a report from Dennis Lin and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
Decide ultimately signed a nine-year, $360 million deal to stay within the Bronx, probably for the remainder of his profession.
Quickly after it was reported that Decide and the Yankees agreed to the brand new contract, information got here out that the 2022 AL MVP met “final minute” with the Padres, earlier than Hal Steinbrenner satisfied the famous person outfielder to stick with the one MLB membership he is identified. At Decide’s official reintroduction press convention in mid-December, after the contract was signed, New York’s proprietor revealed that he instructed No. 99, “So far as I am involved, you aren’t a free agent… you’re a Yankee.”
The 30-year-old four-time All-Star was additionally named the sixteenth captain in franchise historical past on the December presser.
Per the report from Lin and Rosenthal, the Friars “paid for a personal jet to fly Decide’s brokers, household and canine from Tampa Bay to San Diego.” Decide reportedly met at Petco Park for “three hours with a bunch that included proprietor Peter Seidler, basic supervisor A.J. Preller, assistant GM Josh Stein and supervisor Bob Melvin.”
Nonetheless, Yankees brass was capable of persuade the group’s 2013 first-round draft decide to return.
When the Padres missed out on Decide, it got here shortly after San Diego was unable to land dynamic star shortstop Trea Turner. The group finally “settled” on bringing fellow standout shortstop Xander Bogaerts and likewise lately re-signed 2022 NL MVP runner-up Manny Machado and five-time All-Star beginning pitcher Yu Darvish.
With the likes of Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr. and a recovering Joe Musgrove on high of that, the Padres nonetheless have one of many loaded rosters in MLB, even with out Decide and Turner.
