{"id":523605,"date":"2026-01-16T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523605\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:08:40","slug":"new-york-yankees-cody-bellinger-got-absolutely-blasted-by-ex-mlb-gm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523605\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees&#8217; Cody Bellinger Got Absolutely Blasted by Ex-MLB GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are in a weird spot with Cody Bellinger, and frankly, it\u2019s tough to say he should get the money he\u2019s looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Some are starting to call him out, and they\u2019re spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Former MLB executive Jim Bowden isn\u2019t buying the idea that Bellinger deserves a longer or bigger contract than the top players who have already come off the board this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Bowden believes that Bellinger is out of touch with his market, and it seems like he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, if it is true, this demand is ridiculous. Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman all got five years and have been way more consistent over the last five seasons than Bellinger. In addition, a year ago the Cubs had to pay down Bellinger\u2019s salary in order to trade him to the Yankees. I understand that he\u2019s had injuries in his career, but he still slots in after Schwarber, Alonso and Bregman in the pecking order of free agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, he\u2019s coming off a strong 5.1 bWAR season with 29 homers and an .813 OPS, and he can play all three outfield positions, as well as first base, above-average. However, that contract length is too risky based on his track record,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/yankees\/onsi\/news\/jim-bowden-rips-cody-bellinger-new-york-yankees-negotiations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bowden\u2019s argument is that Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso, and Alex Bregman all settled for five-year deals despite being better players, in a sense.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>I guess we can say that only Bregman is, but Alonso and Schwarber have such ridiculous power that there\u2019s definitely an argument for Bellinger not being better than them.<\/p>\n<p>Bellinger, on the other hand, is really good, but he wasn\u2019t some star with the Yankees. We also have to factor in some of his play with the Chicago Cubs and the back part of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the market is the market, so if someone is willing to pay him, that\u2019ll be what happens. However, I don\u2019t believe any team will come close to his asking price. If they were going to, it\u2019d probably already have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Yankees are in a weird spot with Cody Bellinger, and frankly, it\u2019s tough to say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[72,5,1365,161,3804,81,4,1690,62,2548,2547,74,1791,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-523605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-cubs","12":"tag-jim-bowden","13":"tag-kyle-schwarber","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-yankees","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkyankees","19":"tag-pete-alonso","20":"tag-the-los-angeles-dodgers","21":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115905410218351172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}