Yankees can’t be blamed for the Cody Bellinger situation. He wants Judge, Betts & Soto $$

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1. I can hit 29 home run’s in Yankee Stadium

2. Bichette please

3. Bregman is worth 27-28 million a year

4. Done with the Yankees after ownership publicly honored Charlie Kirk

5. Fair point grunt, but they can be blamed for taking a laid back/small market approach to everything else this off-season. The lack of urgency is a disgrace.

6. These guys may price themselves out of a job eventually. There is a ceiling no matter how much money you may think is available.

7. Blame boras…

8. It’s time to stop blaming Boras and start going after the players. The players allow their agents to demand ridiculous contracts when the players themselves know they’re worth nowhere near it. Once the fans start holding the players accountable for their agents, the players will start thinking more humbly and realistically. I’m a Dodgers fan, and I like Bellinger, but I’m tired of his bullshit.

9. If the owners don't dish out the money They get crucified by the fans and the media .

10. It’s an insane world., but I don’t blame the Yankees from walking away. Salary cap is on the table next year in order to stop the insanity. I’m a free market guy so I don’t want a cap but you can’t sustain this madness. Thanks Grunt for putting this out there.

11. He’s asking for Tucker money which Tucker isn’t worth either

12. Bellinger is worth what the market will pay him, same as any other player. I usually agree with your opinions, but the idea that we should be mad at players for getting paid more is buffoonery. Before we ask players (labor) to take less for their actual work, why don't we ask those Billionaire owners to open up their books and show how much money they're ACTUALLY making. Or, we could all sit around patting Hal on the back for wasting the prime of the greatest RH hitter of all time so he can buy a Waterford crystal fishbowl for his fish, who have more personality than he does.

13. Honestly, cashman has done well on not biting on some of these dudes who signed these huge contracts and a lot of them will not age well.

14. Boras needs to be stopped from representing guys this is insane imagine skubal

15. Sadly, some team will give Bellinger and his agent what they're asking for. That's
    exactly why we are seeing contracts spiraling out of control.

16. Let's just remember these two things: 1. Hal Steinbrenner made a LOT of comments about how payroll has to come down, he doesn't like paying so much; and 2. the Yankees have not signed ANY free agents who weren't already here. No Bellinger, fine. Then you KNOW they're just going to trade for cheaper, worse options to replace him, and probably nothing on top of that. The Steinbrenners have to GO.

17. Scott boras is just terrible for baseball…

18. If numbers are correct,let him walk.Let Boras walk as well,off a short wharf.

19. Owners are filthy rich. Don't feel bad for the owners

20. Red Sox fan. I think we should call a truce….merge our two Small Market teams…and become a BIG Market team.
    Thoughts?
    “BO-NY NINE”?

21. Fuck this guy and his agent, it's embarrassing for him to ask for Judge money.

22. NOT WORTH JUDGE MONEY. NO ONE IS WORTH JUDGE MONEY EXCEPT JUDGE.

23. Salary Cap ASAP, they are ridiculous it is the owners fault mega Rich can do it so long. Pretty soon like next year they’ll be asking for a billion over 8 to 10 years.

24. 30, 35, 40 million? who cares? this whole thing is a giant joke at this point….

25. Boras is like the devil. Ruining peoples relationships over money.

26. That's bullshit to compare what players are asking for to Judge and Betts. Those deals are ancient! If Soto gets $50M p/yr, what should Bellinger get? What Steve Cohen and Scott Boras did last year changed the MLB free agent market. You can't compare that to 'older contracts!'

27. Boras gonna Boras.

28. Bye bellinger I would rather trade for hoerner 🗽🗽🗽.

29. Cody Bellinger is on the downside of his career. He's not worth the money based on past performance.

30. He ain't worth 30 mil a year. He hit behind the best player in baseball and with the short porch. He shoulda had 40 and 120, especially if hes looking for that kinda dough. He won't have a job til April.

31. Yeah but you can blame them for not going out and getting Verlander and Bichette

32. I'd love to see Nico Hoerner. Maybe Warren or Gil can help make that happen. Bellinger unfortunately has the worst human representing him. 30 mil for 5 or 6 years is an over pay imo. I know Cody fits the Yankee dysfunction of playing players out of position but from the jump I've wanted Tucker. Tucker and Hoerner would make this team a little better on offense which again imo is what they need. Tuckers down side is he gets hurt and can actually make contact which seems to be against Yankee hitting "analytics" with their hit it out of sit down approach. They have starters, they needed bullpen guys and they have too many out in the line up right now. Lets fn go Tucker, Hoerner BOOM!

33. That is never going to happen

34. The only caveat to the Bregman deal is that $70mil is differed, which is expected to bring the AAV down to about $30mil/year

35. The greed of the players and their agents are destroying @MLB it’s unfortunate sadly this will not end well. The players have know concerns about the fans. The cost of going to a game is so expensive they are depriving youngsters from seeing a @MLB game. In the 70’s and early 80’s I could take my family to Yankee Stadium for a pittance of the charge now. Parking is expensive concessions for food and drinks are outrageous. Agents are the problem screw @ScottBoros he’s a cancer a money grubbing heathen

36. Cubs paying Bregman 35 mil a year is laughable, look at his stats, average at best, best seasons 2018, 2019 the trashcan years. Move on from Cody and get on with it already.

37. With 70 million differed on Alex Bregman it works out to more like 21 million a year AAV

38. Bellinger has proven over and over again in his career that he isn’t built for October. This is a guy that has 270 career playoff at bats and has struck out 34% of the time compared to only 22% in the regular season. It’s not like he is just having horrendous luck on balls put in play like Pages did this year. He has actually been pretty lucky on ball pit in play in the playoffs, yet his stats are still horrendous because he struggles against the top 30% of pitchers much more than any other hitter in the league and that’s mostly what you see in October. Yankees should celebrate not signing him

39. Pot head wants 7 year 270 million 37 million a year. NOWAY . He is NOT Judge, Soto or Ohtaini.