American League MVP Aaron Judge has not spoken to Juan Soto since the end of the World Series, wanting to give him time and the privacy to make his own free agent decision, but it’s hardly as if he’s just sitting back and crossing his fingers that Soto returns to the New York Yankees.

Judge, who won his second AL MVP Award this week, said during a conference call Friday that he met with Steinbrenner in Tampa shortly after the World Series and “discussed a lot of things.”