Belli is back!!! 5 years 162m

[StarBallaz]

That is simply a sweet heart deal for the production Cody Bellinger is going to give the Yankees.

[pwaldo]

I hope he does well with the Yankees but their track record isn't that great here. It seems like they had nobody else to sign and there wasn't much of a market for Bellinger after all these other signings and trades happened.

[StarBallaz]

but their track record isn't that great here.

elaborate on this more. It's not an overwhelming FA this year. Tucker has the upside, but Bellinger already has the pedigree, and if the Yankees can get what they got last year for five years, .272 batting average, 29 home runs, 98 RBIs, and an .813 OPS in 152 games, from his 30-35 age, then no one is going to be able to complain. Now the Yankees need to trade for those last two good years left in Mike Trout and upgrade with a power bat at 3B.

[pwaldo]

elaborate on this more. It's not an overwhelming FA this year. Tucker has the upside, but Bellinger already has the pedigree, and if the Yankees can get what they got last year for five years, .272 batting average, 29 home runs, 98 RBIs, and an .813 OPS in 152 games, from his 30-35 age, then no one is going to be able to complain. Now the Yankees need to trade for those last two good years left in Mike Trout and upgrade with a power bat at 3B.

Yankees multi year free agent signing lately don't work out. They are more liking to have an albatross of a contract in a year or two versus it turning out well for them. Outside of Cole the signing of a non Yankee hasn't paid off for the Yankees since the CC, AJ, and Tex free agent class. Not saying I think Bellinger won't do well with them just that they haven't had a good track record with these signings succeeding (outside of the 1 year deals).

[StarBallaz]

Yankees multi year free agent signing lately don't work out. They are more liking to have an albatross of a contract in a year or two versus it turning out well for them. Outside of Cole the signing of a non Yankee hasn't paid off for the Yankees since the CC, AJ, and Tex free agent class. Not saying I think Bellinger won't do well with them just that they haven't had a good track record with these signings succeeding (outside of the 1 year deals).

Since the AJ, CC, and Tex signings the Yankees have only signed the following non-Yankees BIG NAME FAs still in their prime years Masahiro Tanaka, Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodon, and Max Fried. No offense but LeMaheui, Elsbury, Rizzo were not BIG TIME PRIME signings they were the onsale assorted colas the Yankees overpaid for because they had nobody in their system ready. By contrast Bellinger is a ROY, MVP NLCS MVP, and still very much in his prime years at age 30. And it would not surprise me if he detroned The Captain for league MVP. And the only reason that scares me is because either Bellinger would have to be ridiculously beyond 2019 insane or Judge unavailable. But for 5/162 for a 5+ WAR player still in their prime who makes you a better team than a 700M Juan Soto OF. That's a sweetheart deal to take a gamble for one WS parade. But my voodoo lady in Flatbush Ms. Iris has declared the Yankees win two WS with Bellinger.