Klapisch wrote<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m told by a person familiar with the situation that Bellinger is also seeking $36\u2013$37 million per year,\u201d Klapisch wrote. \u201cThe Yankees think that\u2019s crazy, too, although there\u2019s room for negotiation in that regard.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the years that threaten to doom negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees aren\u2019t completely shutting the door on Bellinger, but the seventh year is a non-starter, and it\u2019s shaping the entire discussion. That\u2019s something Matthew Schmidt and I spoke about during the latest addition of the Yankees Roundtable Podcast, as it doesn\u2019t make much sense to give a player of his status seven years.<\/p>\n
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From the Yankees\u2019 perspective, that stance makes sense.<\/p>\n
Bellinger has had an excellent career, including an MVP season, but his resume also includes some horrible years. He\u2019s rebounded nicely in recent years, but he was also pretty bad in 2024 for the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
Long contracts for position players have often aged poorly, another point Schmidt and I looked at when speaking.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some questions about Scott Boras in this situation, and Klapisch had the latest on that side.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWith agent Scott Boras running point, the market for Bellinger was supposed to overheat. Steinbrenner vowed not to overpay. He didn\u2019t want to get burned by Bellinger the way he did by Juan Soto, who left for the Mets on a 15-year, $765 million contract last offseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut free agency hasn\u2019t been as generous to Bellinger as the Yankees originally thought. The Yankees suspect Boras may have overplayed his hand. With the possibility of a long labor dispute looming in 2027, many owners may be reluctant to spend wildly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees\u2019 situation with Cody Bellinger is one of the more interesting in baseball, and reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[97227,49,48,8298,1509,168756,462,82,28103,1505],"class_list":["post-399933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bob-klapisch","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-juan-soto","tag-matthew-schmidt","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-the-mets","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399933","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=399933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}