{"id":522058,"date":"2026-01-17T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:34:10","slug":"yankees-news-another-yankees-mets-showdown-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522058\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Another Yankees-Mets showdown brewing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS Sports | Dayn Perry<\/a>: Thursday night\u2019s bombshell that Kyle Tucker would be heading to Los Angeles seemed to set up another potential Yankees vs. Mets showdown for a free agent outfielder. The Mets were heavily involved in the Tucker bidding, which would lead one to believe that they could turn their atention to Cody Bellinger. But now, the Mets have made their own major move, grabbing Bo Bichette on a three-year, $126-million deal with two opt outs. Have the Mets removed themselves from the Bellinger sweepstakes? Or will they challenge the Yankees once again?<\/p>\n

New York Post | Jon Heyman<\/a>: We\u2019ve gotten a lot of detail about the Yankees\u2019 reported offer to Bellinger lately, as it\u2019s widely assumed that New York has something like five years and $155 million on the table for the outfielder. Heyman reports further, suggesting that the Yankees are also comfortable offering not one but two opt-outs in the deal. That would be a pretty favorable contract from the player\u2019s perspective, and it\u2019s worth wondering whether Bellinger can expect to extract much more favorable terms than what\u2019s already out there.<\/p>\n

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MLB.com | David Adler<\/a>: Ryan Weathers, breakout candidate? The Yankees sure hope so, and there is reason to believe. Weathers\u2019 arsenal last year comps well to Jes\u00fas Luzardo, Tarik Skubal, and Garrett Crochet, per Statcast, a pretty tantalizing group to be associated with. There\u2019s clear potential for huge strikeout stuff, but the whiffs haven\u2019t all the way come yet for Weathers, his 8.5 K\/9 rate with the Marlins solid but far from elite, and staying on the field has always been a problem for the lefty. The Yankees have a promising project on their hands, but a project nonetheless.<\/p>\n

FanGraphs | Jay Jaffe<\/a>: If you\u2019re in the mood, here\u2019s more analysis of the fateful Tucker deal. Jaffe writes that it sets a new standard for short-term, high-AAV deals, with Tucker\u2019s $57 million annual luxury tax hit (after accounting for deferrals), making him the highest-paid player on an annual basis in MLB history, outstripping Juan Soto\u2019s $51 million number and Shohei Ohtani\u2019s $46 million figure. If you\u2019re coming away from this feeling like this is all a bit much for a player of Tucker\u2019s caliber (read: very, very good, but perhaps not great), then you\u2019d probably be justified, with FanGraphs\u2019 ZiPS projections suggesting about $150 million as an appropriate median offer for Tucker over a four-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports | Dayn Perry: Thursday night\u2019s bombshell that Kyle Tucker would be heading to Los Angeles seemed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":522059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[40934,10624,173058,232251,20401,232252,8740,68707,3693,5605,224,3685,1266,115776,4712,62,34551,67,132,68,2386],"class_list":{"0":"post-522058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bo-bichette","9":"tag-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-david-adler","11":"tag-free-agent-outfielder","12":"tag-garrett-crochet","13":"tag-jay-jaffe","14":"tag-jesus-luzardo","15":"tag-jon-heyman","16":"tag-juan-soto","17":"tag-kyle-tucker","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-mets","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-ryan-weathers","22":"tag-shohei-ohtani","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-tarik-skubal","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115908815293160311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522058","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=522058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}