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The Michael Kay Show

Hour 2: Bring Belli Back?

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

Sports

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What offers are out there for Cody Bellinger and will end up back with the Yankees? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.2

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0:21.2

This is the Michael Kay Show podcast.

0:24.1

I gotta get more K.

0:25.6

Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.

0:31.1

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

0:32.7

So, Tucker, signed by the Dodgers.

0:37.9

Bichette, signed by the Dodgers. Bichette signed by the Mets.

0:42.2

Bichette doesn't go to Philly.

0:45.2

Tucker doesn't go to the Mets.

0:50.4

So the last great top flight free agent that remains offensively was Cody Bellinger.

1:00.1

So from what I've been able to decipher, and some of this has been reported, and I'm sorry if I'm repeating it, the Yankees have offered five years, $160 million to Cody Bellinger.

1:16.1

And from what I've been told, they will include a huge signing bonus.

1:25.0

And they will give opt-outs after the second and the third year of the five-year deal.

1:32.3

Now, I've been trying, I have not been able to find out what the signing bonus is,

1:37.1

but I've been told that it is in fact significant.

1:40.8

And the Yankees have had that offer on the table as it's presently constituted for about a week

1:46.5

to 10 days and it was reported by Bob Koppish over the weekend the Yankees are not budging

1:55.5

from that number or that offer and this is where social media really does illuminate how a fan base thinks.

2:07.0

So over the weekend, I saw so many posts, tweets, whatever you want to call them, out there.

2:20.3

Just give them the seven years. What are you doing?

2:21.2

We need them.

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