ST. PETERSBURG — Aaron Judge plans to dress in a sharp suit, find a comfortable chair and log on for his arbitration hearing with the Yankees on Friday, a meeting scheduled to take place on Zoom.
A difference of $4 million remains between Judge and the Yankees, with an arbitration panel preparing to determine Judge’s 2022 salary. Judge and his agent, Page Odle, filed at $21 million, while the club filed at $17 million.
“It’s all business,” Judge said. “For me, it’s plain and simple: I love this team, I love this organization and everything, but this is a business side of it that I don’t like at times. I don’t think a lot of people like it; I don’t think the team likes it. You have to go through, you handle it and you move on.”
Though the 30-year-old Judge is enjoying an MVP-caliber campaign, owning a .301/.380/.647 slash line with a Major League-leading 25 home runs and 55 runs scored in 65 games, the…
