{"id":330416,"date":"2025-12-04T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:50:08","slug":"yankees-still-trying-hard-for-cody-bellinger-as-stout-competition-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330416\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees still trying hard for Cody Bellinger as stout competition emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Bellinger remains the Yankees\u2019 No. 1 target, and while they aren\u2019t necessarily close to a deal yet, they are making a big effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/27\/sports\/mets-have-more-reason-to-battle-yankees-for-cody-bellinger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellinger has a ton of interest<\/a> coming off his 5-WAR season, with the Mets, Phillies, Angels and his old Dodgers team also possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>While Bellinger slightly outplayed Kyle Tucker in 2025 (and fits the Yankees and Mets better due to his ability to play 1B and CF), Tucker is the No. 1 free agent due to age, more consistency and high walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker\u2019s in good shape with the aggressive Jays hosting him this week, as Robert Murray first reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/sports\/blue-jays-could-enter-kyle-tucker-sweepstakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and the have been very interested all along<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Bellinger remains the Yankees\u2019 No. 1 target, and while they aren\u2019t necessarily close to a deal yet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4711,363,130885,153567,369,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-330416","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-yankees","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330416","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=330416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}