NEW YORK — Aaron Judge may be the best player in baseball and there would be little argument against it, but the Yankees slugger did not mean to say that. He is human after all and just got a little tongue-tied on Sunday.
“When you’re the best player on the team how can you not [be confident]?” Judge was quoted as saying in a YES postgame interview on the field Sunday. The clip has gone viral.
“I was trying to say ‘when you are the best team on the planet,’ and I knew I messed it up,” Judge said Tuesday. “What I said was when you’re the best planet on the team. And I thought to myself I really messed that up. And then I tried to say something about the fans and that came out wrong too.”
