SAN DIEGO — The Giants are giving Aaron Judge plenty of reasons to go to San Francisco.
According to The Post’s Jon Heyman, the Giants have offered Judge in the neighborhood of $360 million to go back home to the Bay Area.
The Yankees have been optimistic about their chances of retaining Judge, but were in the dark for most of Tuesday at the winter meetings about Judge’s plans.
It’s unknown what the Yankees’ latest offer was to Judge, but general manager Brian Cashman said Monday the team had made multiple offers to its star outfielder — although the Yankees were believed to have had an offer of eight years and $300 million, with an expectation that they may have gone to nine years, as well.
On Tuesday afternoon, manager Aaron Boone said the Yankees hadn’t “heard anything” regarding Judge’s plans.
“I know it’s been obviously an ongoing negotiation,’’ Boone said.
Asked about what the Yankees would do if Judge signed somewhere else, Boone said, “I don’t even want to go there yet. But at the end of the day, we’re the New York Yankees, and we’ve always got to be in position to do everything we can to try and be the best we can be.”
Whether that’s with Judge remained up in the air.
“Different things come up all the time that you lose out on things, you get certain things,’’ Boone said. “So the task never stops in trying to improve and trying to become the best team we can be. Hopefully that involves Aaron.”
Added to the mix is the fact on Tuesday, Time Magazine published a story about Judge being its “athlete of the year” in which Judge expressed displeasure with the Yankees revealing the outfielder turned down a seven-year, $213.5 million extension before his record-breaking season.
“We kind of said, ‘Hey, let’s keep this between us,’ ” Judge told the magazine. “I was a little upset that the numbers came out. I understand it’s a negotiation tactic. Put pressure on me. Turn the fans against me, turn the media on me. That part of it I didn’t like.”
It was a sentiment Judge also expressed after the Yankees made the offer known and Boone was confident whatever displeasure Judge may have had regarding it wouldn’t be a factor in the negotiations.
But on Monday, general manager Brian Cashman acknowledged the uncertainty regarding the Yankees’ biggest star.
“It only takes one [team] to take him from us,’’ Cashman said of Judge’s free agency. “It’s a danger. We’ve done it many times and it’s been done to us, too. We’ll see.”
And Cashman said there was no clear backup plan.
“If Judge signs somewhere else, do we pivot and do something else?’’ Cashman said on Monday. “Do we remake ourselves completely? I have no idea. It’s not what we want to do. … We’ll see how it all plays out. The way this winter is gonna play out could take us down a lot of different roads we didn’t expect.”
Meanwhile, some of the Yankees’ offseason plans remained somewhat in limbo — although they did agree to a two-year, $11.5 million deal to bring back right-hander Tommy Kahnle.
A potential outfield target came off the board Tuesday, when Cody Bellinger agreed to a one-year, $17.5 million deal to go to the Cubs after being designated for assignment by the Dodgers following the season.
