{"id":289181,"date":"2025-11-17T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:09:09","slug":"latest-2025-mlb-free-agents-rumors-predictions-on-kyle-tucker-pete-alonso-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289181\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest 2025 MLB Free Agents Rumors, Predictions on Kyle Tucker, Pete Alonso, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Teams that can&#8217;t afford Tucker and still need left-handed power should be all over Cody Bellinger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\"><a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/why-mets-could-easily-sign-edwin-diaz-and-cody-bellinger-the-show\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost_sports&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;sr_share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Heyman reported<\/a> the New York Mets &#8220;will be looking at&#8221; Bellinger as they look to bolster their offense to compete for the National League pennant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Bellinger would be a solid power replacement for Alonso if the Mets&#8217; current first baseman departs in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A return to the Yankees shouldn&#8217;t be counted out either, especially if New York&#8217;s American League franchise doesn&#8217;t get involved with Tucker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A stay in New York seems likely given the potential needs the Yankees and Mets have. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Yankees might be more inclined, though, to give their young homegrown talent a chance, and if that is the case, the Mets are the better suitor, even if Alonso returns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Mets could place Bellinger in the outfield and have four power bats between Bellinger, Alonso, Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor in their best-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Prediction: Bellinger lands with Mets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams that can&#8217;t afford Tucker and still need left-handed power should be all over Cody Bellinger. Heyman reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-289181","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-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289181","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=289181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}