{"id":36719,"date":"2025-11-12T02:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:40:06","slug":"yankees-mets-will-compete-for-cody-bellinger-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36719\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Mets will compete for Cody Bellinger in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees will have company in their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/09\/sports\/yankees-vying-for-cody-bellinger-return-with-crowded-market-among-priorities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">efforts to bring back Cody Bellinger<\/a>, including from the Mets, who currently have openings at 1B and CF.<\/p>\n<p>For the Mets, the only small negative is that Bellinger is left-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Some may recall the Mets signed a Yankees OF last winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/10\/sports\/yankees-offseason-becomes-complicated-if-cody-bellinger-doesnt-re-sign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Re-signing Bellinger is the No. 1 Yankees priority<\/a> \u2014 as re-signing Juan Soto was a year ago. Bellinger thrived his season in The Bronx (5 WAR).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees will have company in their efforts to bring back Cody Bellinger, including from the Mets, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,13917,20,3473,21092,9,24,320,321,63,319,431,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-36719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-gm-meetings","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719","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=36719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}