"It was brutal,"
"I'm seeing other teams around the league get better,"
"They're making trades, they're signing big [free agents] and we're kind of sitting there for a while making smaller moves. It was tough there in the beginning."
"Early on it was pretty tough to watch. It's like, 'man, we're the New York Yankees. Let's go out there and get the right people...get the right pieces to finish this off.'"
Aaron Judge expressed concern about a slow offseason as other teams made larger moves while the Yankees made smaller adjustments. Trent Grisham accepted the qualifying offer early in November, leaving limited initial activity. Judge voiced his feelings internally about the need to add stronger pieces. After the new year the Yankees completed notable transactions, trading for lefthander Ryan Weathers on Jan. 13 and re-signing Cody Bellinger to a five-year, $162.5 million deal on Jan. 25. Veteran first baseman Paul Goldschmidt later agreed to a one-year deal, preserving most of last October's ALDS roster.
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