{"id":290380,"date":"2025-10-09T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290380\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:42:09","slug":"how-yankees-should-approach-their-key-offseason-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290380\/","title":{"rendered":"How Yankees should approach their key offseason decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/09\/sports\/the-burning-offseason-questions-for-yankees-after-another-agonizing-playoff-tease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> bowed out of the postseason<\/a> derby two rounds earlier than last year. So naturally we have some suggestions (plus a scout\u2019s view):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. The outfield\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scout\u2019s view:<\/strong> \u201c[Cody] Bellinger seems to love NY and performed decent. \u2026 Don\u2019t trust [Trent] Grisham. He\u2019s like a medium bullpen guy \u2014 one year good, next year he could be [bad]. \u2026 Martian [Jasson Dom\u00ednguez] stinks in LF. [But] I wouldn\u2019t give up on Martian. Real hitting talent there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>My take:<\/strong> Bellinger was outstanding defensively, very good with the bat (even against lefties) and word is he does love New York. He\u2019s a keeper. They should have a decent chance, though the Mets may be an even better fit. Grisham might get the $22 million qualifying offer, but this was a career year. I\u2019d pass, with big prospect Spencer Jones a viable center field candidate and Dom\u00ednguez another possibility (he has to be better than in left field). Consider Harrison Bader, who\u2019s right-handed and loves the spotlight (his best performances were in the playoffs with the Yankees and down the stretch with the Phillies).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. Hitters\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scout\u2019s view: <\/strong>\u201cPrioritize a couple position players who don\u2019t strike out and have better plate discipline.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees bowed out of the postseason derby two rounds earlier than last year. So naturally we have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1266,2228,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-290380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-new-york-yankees","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-columnists","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115346626653645765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}