{"id":316874,"date":"2025-11-27T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:51:47","slug":"mets-have-more-reason-to-battle-yankees-for-cody-bellinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316874\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets have more reason to battle Yankees for Cody Bellinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most encouraging thing out of David Stearns\u2019 Zoom call with writers was Stearns answering \u201csure\u201d as to whether it\u2019s possible the Mets could do all three of these things: bring back Edwin D\u00edaz and Pete Alonso as well as add a big outfielder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trading Brandon Nimmo is only the first hint the Mets will react strongly to their disastrous 83-win season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cody Bellinger looks like a better Mets fit now that Nimmo <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/24\/sports\/brandon-nimmo-traded-mets-immortality-for-rangers-world-series-chance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been traded<\/a>. If they bring back Alonso (things feel much more positive this year than last), Bellinger could enhance the 1B situation by giving Alonso a DH day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Yankees continue to make Bellinger their No. 1 target, plus Philly and both LA teams are lurking.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most encouraging thing out of David Stearns\u2019 Zoom call with writers was Stearns answering \u201csure\u201d as to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4711,363,130885,153567,1189,369,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-316874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cody-bellinger","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}