{"id":413092,"date":"2026-01-16T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413092\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:15:08","slug":"yankees-willing-to-add-multiple-opt-outs-in-their-cody-bellinger-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/413092\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees willing to add multiple opt-outs in their Cody Bellinger pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees are signaling a wiliness to do not just one opt-out, but two opt-outs for Cody Bellinger in continuing efforts to bridge the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/sports\/yankees-cody-bellinger-offer-revealed-as-sides-try-to-bridge-gap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long-standing issue of length of contract<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So to recap, the Yankees will give a big signing bonus (attractive with CBA issues looming), no deferrals and now two opt-outs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve offered about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/sports\/yankees-cody-bellinger-offer-revealed-as-sides-try-to-bridge-gap\/#:~:text=surprised%20by%20issue-,By,least%20four%20other%20position%20players.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$155M over five years<\/a> and would increase the money too. But Bellinger has been looking for seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bellinger has countered the Yankees offer. (But that\u2019s no guarantee. Alex Bregman countered Boston\u2019s offer, too.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are signaling a wiliness to do not just one opt-out, but two opt-outs for Cody Bellinger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,8298,462,40120,3980,3543,82,2089],"class_list":["post-413092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413092","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=413092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}