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🚨Cody Bellinger Re-Signs with the Chicago Cubs! - Emergency Podcast (2/25 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Cody Bellinger is returning to the Chicago Cubs (2:25)! ... He signed an interesting contract: three years, $80 million with opt outs after 2024 and 2025 (3:55). ... What is Bellinger's ADP in drafts (6:30)? ... What does this mean for the rest of the Cubs lineup (11:55)? ... Who are the top remaining free agents (15:55)?


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0:00.0

Now here's Frank Scott and Chris.

0:05.0

Cub's fans, Rejoys!

0:07.0

Cody Bellinger is headed back to the Windy City.

0:10.0

Welcome into an emergency edition of Fantasy Baseball today.

0:13.0

Frank Stample joined by Chris Towers on Sunday,

0:16.0

February 25th, and Cody Bellinger has re-signed

0:19.2

with the Chicago Cubs on a three-year $80 million contract contract which includes opt-outs after both

0:24.8

2024 and 2025. We'll get to the contract in just a little bit because it is

0:30.2

interesting. Let's start with your immediate reaction on Bellinger, Chris.

0:33.8

Back to the Cubs, because outside of maybe joining the Yankees

0:38.1

this off season with that short porch and right field,

0:41.6

going back to Chicago kind of feels like the best fit.

0:45.0

Yeah, I think the biggest thing is, look, there's a lot of uncertainty about whether

0:49.7

Cody Bellinger can repeat what he did last season and it might be even more fair to say there's a lot of skepticism

0:56.4

certainly from me on whether he can repeat that but one thing we can say is it worked in Chicago and so whether he can do it again is obviously a bigger

1:06.4

question but the fact that he's returning to the place where it already worked and you know

1:11.9

the place where you know he kind of turned his career back around I think it

1:16.6

should make you a little more optimistic about his chances because you know it's a it's a

1:21.6

good home park you know the the wind flying out you know certainly

1:26.6

seem to help him maximize the the power he has so from that perspective you, it's a pretty good lineup.

1:33.6

But I think all else being equal, this was pretty close to the ideal scenario

1:39.6

for Cody Bellinger for Fantasy.

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