{"id":367413,"date":"2026-10-08T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:08:31","slug":"brian-cashman-explains-why-aaron-judges-yankees-alds-absence-wasnt-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367413\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cashman explains why Aaron Judge&#8217;s Yankees ALDS absence &#8216;wasn&#8217;t a choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees GM Brian Cashman explained for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/05\/sports\/the-two-big-aaron-judge-giancarlo-stanton-questions-hanging-over-yankees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">why Aaron Judge wasn\u2019t included<\/a> on the division series roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just not ready. In the end, he wasn\u2019t physically able,\u201d Cashman told a few writers. \u201cI know what he would like to do. \u2026 That\u2019s the warrior in him. But physically, he wasn\u2019t a choice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judge\u2019s inability to run the bases or play the outfield ultimately made the choice easy. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41220210\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/new-york-yankee-gm-brian-127127744.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman participates in the BTIG Charity Day.\" class=\"wp-image-41220210\"\/>New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman participates in the BTIG Charity Day in New York, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. During the event, celebrities and athletes join to support charities worldwide by donating trading profits. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Caballero is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/07\/sports\/yankees-shake-up-alds-game-3-lineup-with-season-on-the-line\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally getting a starting chance<\/a> in Game 3 against his old Rays team. That was the right call.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees GM Brian Cashman explained for the first time why Aaron Judge wasn\u2019t included on the division series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10094,11947,20,5515,9,11,10,321,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-367413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aaron-judge","tag-brian-cashman","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}