Pinstripe Alley · Mar 19, 2018
Breaking down the Aaron Judge tampering controversy
On Wednesday, Yankees slugger addressed the press, and referring to a conversation he had with Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, remarked, “I told him, ‘You’d look pretty good in pinstripes, too.’” The comment did not go without response, as both Major League Baseball and the Yankees organization issued their own statements. MLB said that Judge’s “off-the-cuff comments were not appropriate and not authorized by the club,” and GM Brian Cashman talked to him to make sure it would not happen again, and that even with his pristine public image, “You can’t throw a perfect game every day, either.”