The staredown of a lifetime continues, as the Yankees continue to stand behind their line in the sand with Cody Bellinger. In the meantime, however, the rest of the free agent board has been active: Kyle Tucker caused an uproar by signing a four-year, $240 million deal with the Dodgers while Bo Bichette pivoted to a short-term deal of his own with the Mets at three years and $126 million. Bellinger\u2019s now the last of the top-tier free agents waiting on a team for 2026, but with the Yankees not budging the floor is open for one of the teams that missed out on those other guys to outbid them for Bellinger. At this point, it sounds like the team is pretty content with either outcome.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had a lot of time to sit with this scenario, and much like the state of the team the questions haven\u2019t changed much. Are the Yankees making a mistake by not pushing for Bellinger, or is the deal they\u2019ve offered him already an overpay? Is the league in trouble with the Dodgers adding yet another star on a big money deal? If you have questions like these, or anything else on your mind, send \u2018em in for a chance to be featured in our Yankees mailbag.<\/p>\n
Answers will run on Friday afternoon. All questions received by the night of January 22nd will be considered. You can leave your submissions in the comment section below or by e-mail to pinstripealleyblog [at] gmail [dot] com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The staredown of a lifetime continues, as the Yankees continue to stand behind their line in the sand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7660],"class_list":{"0":"post-529781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115929730716689077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529781","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=529781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}