Report: Yankees won’t engage in bidding war for Bellinger
January 18, 2026
Report: Yankees won’t engage in bidding war for Bellinger
50 comments
Honestly? Good. Anybody bitching about this is going to be losing their shit in two years when this contract becomes an absolute albatross.
Just want to know who is protecting Judge in the lineup. If they have a solid pivot – great. Otherwise – they’ve fucked their fanbase and Judge
We know.
He can be a Yankee for 30M per year or go move to Toronto or join the Mets clown show for slightly more.
F Scott Boras 🖕
Good! Fuck Boras
“We like the team we currently have.”
It’s over boys
I’m just so tired of reading his name at this point
Good
Good.
I hope they don’t.
I would rather overpay for Tatis in a trade than overpay for Bellinger in free agency.
Fuck Cody, bring up Spencer or sign bader
Good decision. Bellinger is not someone you get into a bidding war over. Just not quite enough quality there.
I’d be happy to resign him, but at an appropriate cost.
Wait him out. I’d love Bellinger back, but I’m fine with giving Jones and Dominguez a real shot in LF and maybe making a trade for a shortstop/lead-off batter like Hoerner or a solid starter like Peralta. The offer on the table for Bellinger is fair, and if Cashman can make a couple smart moves to improve the team in other ways, that’s a win in my book.
That’s fine. He is not the caliber of player for which you engage in a bidding war.
I mean fine. Screw it. Go into the season with Dominguez AND Jones on the roster and let the chips fall. That was really, if you squint, always supposed to be the plan anyways.
You never know, man. Maybe Jones benefits from spending time around Judge and studying how Judge makes his swing decisions.
Pretty sure this means take the fucking deal and stop wasting our time
Good they shouldn’t. Don’t worry one of these outta nowheres is going to come outta nowhere and rake. Fret not boys…you don’t want Belli a year from now on any deal that pay hims 35ish a year
Good. He’s not even worth what they’ve already offered. If the Mets or someone want to give him 7 years and $200 million, let them.
Good let’s see what his market does now. Bro is not that good.
Mets aren’t giving 6 years and the Dodgers do not need him. Maybe Blue Jays? Who is gonna beat the Yankees offer?
I’d be fine going into the season with an outfield of Judge, Grisham, and Dominguez instead of overpaying for Bellinger.
He’ll go to the Mets with the rest of our free agents, and they’ll somehow miss the post season again.
I firmly am against giving into boras and bellinger more than what they’re already offered. Bellinger isn’t a true star, he’s a supplementary solid player.
That said, plan B being Harrison Bader or Austin Hays for the last year or two of Judge’s prime is; yikes!
At this point. Tell him here’s the deadline. Every day after our offer goes down 10 million.
You can’t if you’re a poverty franchise
They should pull the offer they made.
Awesome
of course why try to spend money
Yeah, it’d be an overpay, but we gotta find some way to keep/improve our roster this season. This is getting ridiculous.
Good
I really don’t think anyone is bidding for him. His home/away splits are wild. I think he just wants more from the Yankees, but the Yankees aren’t as desperate for him to come back so Boras’ usual tricks aren’t working. Just my two cents, can’t prove it. I think he’s gonna sign eventually. I’d be floored if Toronto or the Mets actually went to $160 million for a guy with a 97 OPS+ away from Yankee Stadium on the wrong side of 30.
I think at this point, some teams hate Boras more than they like the players he represents.
Honestly id rather take a pass and try to improve through trades instead of completely overpay for mid
I’m okay with that; this is exactly what Scott Boras wants. He did it with Soto, and he’s trying it again. For whatever reason, Bellinger thinks he’s worth a 7-year contract when he’s not. Does anyone remember when he was looking for a 7-year, $250M deal and ended up crawling back to the Cubs on a 3-year, $88M deal a year before we traded for him? If he wants to let his agent kill another deal for him let him
Trade 👏 for 👏 Kwan
I’m so tired of the Yankees lately, I hate it here
I hate the management of this organization as much as the next guy, but they’re not wrong here. 5/155 with opt outs, a signing bonus, and potentially a NTC is more than fair for the production Bellinger provides. If he gets a better offer, fine, and it’ll suck to lose him. But god damn, dude. He’s not worth more than that
Cool let’s just run it back with a lesser team that couldn’t get past the DS and a rotations missing 2 of its top guys.
Because they’re bidding with themselves probably
At this point I just want to read that he’s signed elsewhere
I knew this a while ago (for the record I am on the Yankees side in this if we’re talking a 7 year deal)
The Yankees won’t get into a bidding war for anyone, which is why this core has peaked. At least with Bellinger, not getting into a bidding war is the smart move for once.
Grisham taking the qualifying offer doesn’t seem that bad anymore. The idea of going with Dominguez and Jones in the outfield would’ve made the Yankees cave in and give Bellinger 7 years.
Thank fucking god this sub is on the same page as before because I would have lost my shit if suddenly everyone wanted to overpay this guy just to do something.
Dude absolutely isn’t worth 40m/year for 800 years like he wants
Yep, we know, and that’s why it’s more than likely that he’s gone. Mets need an OF and the Jays need an OF and both are willing to shell out more money than the Yankees. Dominguez will be in LF, it is what it is, let’s hope the kid takes some positive strides. The Grisham QO looking like a solid move now.
People really complaining about them being cheap. You guys really wanna pay bellinger 35-40 a year. You know this is why a lot of the past teams sucked because they got stuck with so many bad contracts
Report, or … Scott Boras using the media to try and get Yankee fans to pressure the team into overspending on a good but not great player.
The thing with Bellnger is that other teams cannot just hand wave away his ’25 home/road splits.
50 comments
Honestly? Good. Anybody bitching about this is going to be losing their shit in two years when this contract becomes an absolute albatross.
Just want to know who is protecting Judge in the lineup. If they have a solid pivot – great. Otherwise – they’ve fucked their fanbase and Judge
We know.
He can be a Yankee for 30M per year or go move to Toronto or join the Mets clown show for slightly more.
F Scott Boras 🖕
Good! Fuck Boras
“We like the team we currently have.”
It’s over boys
I’m just so tired of reading his name at this point
Good
Good.
I hope they don’t.
I would rather overpay for Tatis in a trade than overpay for Bellinger in free agency.
Fuck Cody, bring up Spencer or sign bader
Good decision. Bellinger is not someone you get into a bidding war over. Just not quite enough quality there.
I’d be happy to resign him, but at an appropriate cost.
Wait him out. I’d love Bellinger back, but I’m fine with giving Jones and Dominguez a real shot in LF and maybe making a trade for a shortstop/lead-off batter like Hoerner or a solid starter like Peralta. The offer on the table for Bellinger is fair, and if Cashman can make a couple smart moves to improve the team in other ways, that’s a win in my book.
That’s fine. He is not the caliber of player for which you engage in a bidding war.
I mean fine. Screw it. Go into the season with Dominguez AND Jones on the roster and let the chips fall. That was really, if you squint, always supposed to be the plan anyways.
You never know, man. Maybe Jones benefits from spending time around Judge and studying how Judge makes his swing decisions.
Pretty sure this means take the fucking deal and stop wasting our time
Good they shouldn’t. Don’t worry one of these outta nowheres is going to come outta nowhere and rake. Fret not boys…you don’t want Belli a year from now on any deal that pay hims 35ish a year
Good. He’s not even worth what they’ve already offered. If the Mets or someone want to give him 7 years and $200 million, let them.
Good let’s see what his market does now. Bro is not that good.
Mets aren’t giving 6 years and the Dodgers do not need him. Maybe Blue Jays? Who is gonna beat the Yankees offer?
I’d be fine going into the season with an outfield of Judge, Grisham, and Dominguez instead of overpaying for Bellinger.
He’ll go to the Mets with the rest of our free agents, and they’ll somehow miss the post season again.
I firmly am against giving into boras and bellinger more than what they’re already offered. Bellinger isn’t a true star, he’s a supplementary solid player.
That said, plan B being Harrison Bader or Austin Hays for the last year or two of Judge’s prime is; yikes!
At this point. Tell him here’s the deadline. Every day after our offer goes down 10 million.
You can’t if you’re a poverty franchise
They should pull the offer they made.
Awesome
of course why try to spend money
Yeah, it’d be an overpay, but we gotta find some way to keep/improve our roster this season. This is getting ridiculous.
Good
I really don’t think anyone is bidding for him. His home/away splits are wild. I think he just wants more from the Yankees, but the Yankees aren’t as desperate for him to come back so Boras’ usual tricks aren’t working. Just my two cents, can’t prove it. I think he’s gonna sign eventually. I’d be floored if Toronto or the Mets actually went to $160 million for a guy with a 97 OPS+ away from Yankee Stadium on the wrong side of 30.
I think at this point, some teams hate Boras more than they like the players he represents.
Honestly id rather take a pass and try to improve through trades instead of completely overpay for mid
I’m okay with that; this is exactly what Scott Boras wants. He did it with Soto, and he’s trying it again. For whatever reason, Bellinger thinks he’s worth a 7-year contract when he’s not. Does anyone remember when he was looking for a 7-year, $250M deal and ended up crawling back to the Cubs on a 3-year, $88M deal a year before we traded for him? If he wants to let his agent kill another deal for him let him
Trade 👏 for 👏 Kwan
I’m so tired of the Yankees lately, I hate it here
I hate the management of this organization as much as the next guy, but they’re not wrong here. 5/155 with opt outs, a signing bonus, and potentially a NTC is more than fair for the production Bellinger provides. If he gets a better offer, fine, and it’ll suck to lose him. But god damn, dude. He’s not worth more than that
Cool let’s just run it back with a lesser team that couldn’t get past the DS and a rotations missing 2 of its top guys.
Because they’re bidding with themselves probably
At this point I just want to read that he’s signed elsewhere
I knew this a while ago (for the record I am on the Yankees side in this if we’re talking a 7 year deal)
The Yankees won’t get into a bidding war for anyone, which is why this core has peaked. At least with Bellinger, not getting into a bidding war is the smart move for once.
Grisham taking the qualifying offer doesn’t seem that bad anymore. The idea of going with Dominguez and Jones in the outfield would’ve made the Yankees cave in and give Bellinger 7 years.
Thank fucking god this sub is on the same page as before because I would have lost my shit if suddenly everyone wanted to overpay this guy just to do something.
Dude absolutely isn’t worth 40m/year for 800 years like he wants
Yep, we know, and that’s why it’s more than likely that he’s gone. Mets need an OF and the Jays need an OF and both are willing to shell out more money than the Yankees. Dominguez will be in LF, it is what it is, let’s hope the kid takes some positive strides. The Grisham QO looking like a solid move now.
People really complaining about them being cheap. You guys really wanna pay bellinger 35-40 a year. You know this is why a lot of the past teams sucked because they got stuck with so many bad contracts
Report, or … Scott Boras using the media to try and get Yankee fans to pressure the team into overspending on a good but not great player.
The thing with Bellnger is that other teams cannot just hand wave away his ’25 home/road splits.