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There was a time last offseason when it seemed Willy Adames might end up playing full time in The Bronx.<\/p>\n
The Yankees had a need in the infield and Adames was near \u2014 or perhaps at the top \u2014 of their list.<\/p>\n
The mutual interest from player and team led to a Zoom call which the shortstop \u2014 who ultimately signed with the Giants \u2014 called \u201camazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew it was a possibility for me to play here,\u2019\u2019 Adames told The Post following the Giants\u2019 win over the Yankees in the series opener Friday night at the Stadium. \u201cWe had a conversation and it was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adames, who grew up a huge fan of Derek Jeter and wears No. 2 in his honor, was impressed by the Yankees\u2019 sales pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really good and interesting,\u2019\u2019 Adames said of the meeting. \u201cIt was very different from everybody else. It was more about me the person than about my stats. I really liked that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aaron Boone was on that call and was similarly impressed with Adames.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a big fan of that player and getting to talk to him,\u2019\u2019 Boone said Saturday before the Yankees\u2019 8-4 win. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely a guy we were very interested in and really liked.\u201d<\/p>\n
The issue, though, was that Adames, who went 2-for-5 on Saturday, was intent on getting his free agent deal done before Christmas and at the time of their meeting, the Yankees were still involved in the Juan Soto sweepstakes, which they ended up losing to the Mets.<\/p>\n
They weren\u2019t willing to pay Adames with the possibility of re-signing Soto still out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going through the Soto stuff and weren\u2019t able to commit to him, one way or the other,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe went off the board pretty quick there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old agreed to a seven-year, $182 million deal with the Giants on Dec. 7, just days before Soto got his 15-year, $765 million contract from the Mets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe timeline didn\u2019t work out for them to bring me to New York,\u2019\u2019 Adames said.<\/p>\n
Asked why he was so insistent on finding a new home early in free agency, Adames said, \u201cI wanted to do it before Christmas and not wait until January, with not knowing where I was gonna go or who my teammates were gonna be. My thing was to settle early so I could start communicating and building chemistry with my teammates and I\u2019m happy I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, prior to singing with San Francisco after four years with Tampa Bay and another four with Milwaukee, Adames said there was a serious pull to go to the Yankees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho doesn\u2019t want to play for the same team your idol played for?\u201d Adames said. \u201cThe same city, the same position. It would have been great. But I\u2019m very happy with where I am right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Adames signed with the Giants and Soto with the Mets, the Yankees pivoted to pitching, signing Max Fried to a seven-year, $218 million deal, the largest contract ever given to a left-handed starter.<\/p>\n
Fried became one of the main pieces of the new-look Yankees, who looked to make up for at least some of Soto\u2019s offense by trading for Cody Bellinger and bringing in free agent first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.<\/p>\n
Fried has been the lone positive for a rotation that\u2019s struggled without ace Gerrit Cole and, while Goldschmidt has gotten off to a good start after a disappointing end to his time in St. Louis last year, Bellinger has been up and down in the first two weeks of the season.<\/p>\n
And they didn\u2019t add another infielder, leaving Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza to split time at third, with DJ LeMahieu set to begin a rehab assignment soon after being sidelined since early in spring training with a strained calf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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