[Passan] Cody Bellinger’s deal with the New York Yankees is for five years and $162.5 million, sources tell ESPN. There are opt-outs after the second and third season — which get pushed back a year in the event of a lockout — a $20 million signing bonus and a full no-trade clause

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1. Holy shit Yankees paid him

2. Not 38 mil and 5 years instead of 7. Honestly fine with this.

3. “which get pushed back a year in the event of a lockout”

   🤔🤔🤔

4. Baseball contracts will never not be crazy to me. What a payday for Bellinger.

5. He remains in the division… oh dear…

6. Yankees ruin baseball AGAIN WOW

7. Good for him – didn’t really make sense for him to go anywhere else production wise and so made sense Yankees could pay up

8. Probably worth it to protect judge in the lineup a little bit. Plus he has the second most WAR behind judge on the Yankees. 5 years is solid, nothing too far extended.

   But who knows with this market, I don’t know value anymore

9. Bro did not get 7 years lol

10. So he’ll probably be a free agent again.

11. Good for Belli tbh

12. Honestly still overpaid. But that’s how it goes after Dodgers is essentially paying 120 millions every year for Tucker.

13. Just a terrible deal. Sorry. Hope he proves me wrong. But giving this much money to a hit or miss player is nuts to me.

14. Figured nobody would beat the deal the Yankees put out

15. All near future free agents are just licking their lips

16. Crazy that Tucker got twice the AAV. That’s just Dodgers things at this point.

17. Bellinger made off very well.

18. Boras was really trying to get seven years out of this. Yankees weren’t gonna compete with themselves

19. Glad Cody got his bag, even if it isn’t the city-block-sized bag he was apparently hoping for

20. Happy Cody got paid and the Yankees got their guy, but I would have preferred we get Cody back instead of Tucker. All I wanted this offseason was for my son to come home

21. What happened to all those mystery teams they were talking about just yesterday? All this posturing by Boras, and they end up taking more or less the same deal the Yankees were offering all along.

22. Oh wow longer than I thought

23. Any length lockout or a lockout that affects the 162 game schedule? Partial or full lockout season?

    There was a lockout in 2021 but no regular season games were impacted, they still played the full schedule

24. I am happy with this

25. I’ll be almost 40 when the next round of beli rumors come out. Lfg

26. Insane contract for Belli. The Yankees are the Los Angeles Dodgers of baseball.

27. player inflation this year be wild eh?

28. $30million for Bellinger? Lmao

29. Boras got $2.5M than what was reported. People hate Boras, but he usually gets top dollar for his clients. If you’re a top player, I’d hire him and so would you. Now get Peralta before the Dodgers do. Do it fast!

30. 

31. We are for sure getting a lockout.

32. Is the no trade clause really necessary? What team would try to trade for Bellinger three years from now?

33. The kid robbed em. Good for him