{"id":105156,"date":"2026-01-19T22:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105156\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:46:12","slug":"yankees-sign-seth-brown-as-cody-bellinger-talks-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105156\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign Seth Brown as Cody Bellinger talks linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees continue to stockpile depth while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/17\/sports\/yankees-margin-for-error-with-cody-bellinger-free-agency-has-grown-slimer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">holding out for their top offseason target<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The club and outfielder\/first baseman Seth Brown agreed to a minor league deal on Monday, bringing the former Athletics slugger into the organization to potentially serve as insurance at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 33, was released by the Athletics last year after he spent parts of seven seasons in the big leagues with them, batting .226 with a .712 OPS and 74 home runs in 568 games. The left-handed hitter\u2019s best year came in 2022, when he hit .230 with 25 home runs with a .749 OPS, but in three years since he has hit .223 with 29 home runs and a .667 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>The signing was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AramLeighton8\/status\/2013290758065762315?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first reported by Just Baseball.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As they try to re-sign Cody Bellinger as the central move of their offseason, the Yankees have replenished some depth with minor league signings, a group that includes former big leaguers in Brown, Paul DeJong and Zack Short.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38225403\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2212930513.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Brown\" class=\"wp-image-38225403\"  \/>Seth Brown Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Many of the outfielders that spent time at Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre last season are no longer in the organization, including Everson Pereira (traded for Jos\u00e9 Caballero), Dominic Smith, Ismael Munguia, Bryan De La Cruz, Jos\u00e9 Rojas and Brennen Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees continue to stockpile depth while holding out for their top offseason target. The club and outfielder\/first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,3473,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-105156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}