{"id":239565,"date":"2025-10-25T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:34:18","slug":"the-biggest-separators-in-yankees-cody-bellinger-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239565\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest separators in Yankees&#8217; Cody Bellinger decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/sports\/joel-shermans-3-things-i-think-the-mets-complicated-pete-alonso-puzzle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of the series <\/a>on the main New York free agents, we dig deep into Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n<p>The case for Cody Bellinger<\/p>\n<p>He had a 2025 on par with Kyle Tucker, who is viewed as the top free agent available, and one who should top $300 million and possibly reach $400 million. The lefty-swinging Bellinger had 5.0 WAR (Baseball Reference), 29 homers and a 125 OPS-plus compared to the lefty-swinging Tucker\u2019s 4.5\/22\/143.<\/p>\n<p>Bellinger helped the 2025 Yankees with not just all five tools, but by seamlessly \u2014 and willingly \u2014 moving among the three outfield positions and first base. He limits strikeouts (career-low 13.7 percent), his 1.016 OPS was the best lefty hitter vs. lefty pitcher this year, and he had a .977 OPS with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>He has played in the three largest markets \u2014 Los Angeles, Chicago and New York\u2014 and clearly is not cowed by any stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Part 2 of the series on the main New York free agents, we dig deep into Cody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,8298,510,462,40120,3980,82,2091,2089],"class_list":{"0":"post-239565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-kyle-tucker","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-free-agency","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}