MLB reprimands Yankees over Judge recruiting Machado

MLB had some words for the New York Yankees after Aaron Judge did some tampering with future free agent Manny Machado.

Judge tried to recruit Machado before Wednesday’s spring training game between the Yankees and Machado’s Baltimore Orioles.

“Adding him to our lineup that we’ve already got would be something special. I told him he’d look good in pinstripes,” Judge says he told Machado before the game, via the New York Daily News.

When speaking with the media, Judge then went on to praise Machado’s abilities as a player.

Machado will be a free agent after the season, and many have expected the Yankees to pursue him. But MLB is not too happy about one team’s star player publicly recruiting another team’s star player like that.

“We have been in contact with the Yankees,” MLB said Wednesday night in a statement, via Newsday. “They communicated to us that Mr. Judge’s off the cuff comments were not appropriate and not authorized by the club. They will speak to him to make sure that this does not happen again.”

Judge obviously isn’t a Lakers fan, otherwise he would have known why that type of talk is frowned upon by the league.