Yankees' Brian Cashman opens up on failed Aaron Judge negotiations: 'We entered with a legit effort'

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New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman elaborated more on the quest to sign Aaron Judge to a long-term contract and the effort that was made to get a deal done.

The two sides had set an opening day deadline to get a deal done, but negotiations never yielded the deal either side was hoping for. Cashman appeared on WFAN Sports Radio on Monday and talked more about what happened with the potential deal falling through.

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Brian Cashman, general manager and senior vice president of the New York Yankees, announces that the team failed to secure a multi-year deal with right fielder Aaron Judge (99) before their opening day baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, April 8, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

"I don’t presume anything, because it takes a lot when you’re putting together a trade or coming to contract terms, but we went in with the legitimate intent of coming out (with a long-term deal)," Cashman said. "If you don’t have the outcome you want on the timeline you have, which for us was opening day, you still get another bite of the apple. We entered with a legit effort, and now we live to fight another day.

"I would not want to share anything about their side or interest or hopes, other than Judge sharing his intent of wanting to be here for life, but I did share with Aaron’s reps that if we didn’t come to an agreement, we’d be sharing our side of the fence, and they were free to do the same. I can’t speak on his feelings either way, but I was transparent publicly and privately in advance of that. Ultimately, the one difficult side of our sport is when the