How Yankees’ Joey Gallo mess should clarify Aaron Judge deal

If you think it can’t get any worse for the Yankees with Joey Gallo, consider this:

If the Yankees had never acquired Gallo and Aaron Judge had left as a free agent after the 2022 season, the Yankees likely would have had Gallo – also a free agent after this season – at the top of their roster to replace their star. , such was their pre-acquisition obsession with him.

« Nightmare on Elm Street » would have been a comedy compared to this striped horror.

Gallo wanted nothing to do with New York even before the trade, and unlike a trade, could have controlled avoiding the Yankees as a free agent.