The Yankees continue with their plan B, a much rumored trade with the Cubs to bring in Cody

Bellinger. And when we were talking about Soto to either the Mets or the Yankees and whether it was

the right thing to do to pay him that money, one of the common things that we would talk about

is it better to give Juan Soto the $51 million or spread a year or spread that money out across three different players.

Well, now you've got some evidence here.

The Mets have Juan Soto.

And the Yankees have Cody Bellinger, Max Fried, and Devin Williams for almost the same amount of money, a little bit less for the Yankees.

So Brian Cashman, Hal Steinbrenner, very aggressive after losing Soto.

And Bellinger, at his best at Yankee Stadium, could be a major weapon.

But he had a down year last year.

He's making a lot of money, and the Cubs could not wait to get rid of him to free up some money

so they could go out and get some

better players.

So this could go either way.

Good morning, Boomer.

How are you?

Yeah, it's a little bit of a risk, I would say, but I think it's a risk worth taking.

And when you think about the Juan Soto signing, they also had to give him a $75 million signing

bonus.

So the Yankees didn't have to do that. The Yankees don't have to give

him an average of $61 million over the next five years. So it really does make sense that,

you know, they are starting to go to plan B. And plan B obviously starts with pitching. And now

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