{"id":424576,"date":"2025-12-04T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424576\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:41:12","slug":"yankees-still-trying-hard-for-cody-bellinger-as-stout-competition-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424576\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees still trying hard for Cody Bellinger as stout competition emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Bellinger remains the Yankees\u2019 No. 1 target, and while they aren\u2019t necessarily close to a deal yet, they are making a big effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/27\/sports\/mets-have-more-reason-to-battle-yankees-for-cody-bellinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bellinger has a ton of interest<\/a> coming off his 5-WAR season, with the Mets, Phillies, Angels and his old Dodgers team also possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>While Bellinger slightly outplayed Kyle Tucker in 2025 (and fits the Yankees and Mets better due to his ability to play 1B and CF), Tucker is the No. 1 free agent due to age, more consistency and high walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker\u2019s in good shape with the aggressive Jays hosting him this week, as Robert Murray first reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/sports\/blue-jays-could-enter-kyle-tucker-sweepstakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and the have been very interested all along<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Bellinger remains the Yankees\u2019 No. 1 target, and while they aren\u2019t necessarily close to a deal yet,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10624,1266,71333,179519,2228,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-424576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cody-bellinger","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115662532539045131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424576","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=424576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}