We talked about the other day and said, why would he? I mean, he's 31. He's going to take a

short-term high AAV offer from the Mets as opposed to what has been widely reported, mainly

because the Yankees couldn't wait to leak it out, a five-year 160, 165 million dollar deal from

the Yankees? The MET offer is not better. And the Met's situation is not better. So what we learned,

I think, by the Robert Trade is that the Mets expect Cody Bellinger to pick the Yankees and Yankee

fans as we sit here in the middle of January and you literally have added one player from

outside of your organization via trade with the Miami Marlins in Ryan Weathers.

I expect that you're going to get Cody Bellinger back soon.

And what I don't know is your reaction to it is going to be what?

Sense of relief, happiness, celebration, like, it's not celebration. It'll be relief and happiness from a standpoint of, all right, the Yankees are set to compete and try to go be the best team in the American League next year, and we'll worry about a World Series when we get to one. Which I find interesting because at the beginning of the offseason, we did this fun thing where I said, I'd everybody lay out your Yankee plan. And we all had really extensive plans. Unless the Yankees make another move, they trade for Freddie Peralta, something like that, they haven't done any of it. They haven't. So was the bar set so low that if they just bring Cody back, you would be like, all right, I'm good. Even though if I told you that in November, you would not have been happy. Yes, but remember in November, and I think at the time we did this, I also did not expect Trent Grisham to accept the qualifying offer. And I think that threw everything into a wrench. That was $20 million locked up. So I think that changed everything. So they need Bellinger's bat at this point. And they mainly need it because

Bichette is gone. Tucker is gone. Any backup plan they would have had is off the board. So if he goes

in Sons with Toronto now, what do they do? Well, I'm going to tell you something that's really boring,

but really true. And I don't think people really want to hear it, but I'm being real as we get

closer to the baseball season. The New York Yankees have a real chance to be significantly better than they were last year, even though they won 94 games and haven't had a sexy offseason. How you ask? It's kind of simple. How? Oh, is that a real how? How? How? Because you have a lot of young players who could get significantly better. Yes. Starting with Jason Dominguez, who didn't really get that full opportunity a year ago, and even Spencer Jones, who has a chance to be on this team. And even Ben Rice, as productive as he was last year, he was blocked for portions of the season. He's going to be the everyday first baseman. Austin Wells has a chance to bounce back from a sophomore year that wasn't as good as his rookie season.

And then when you look at the rotation, it's going to start with injuries,

but it's going to feature Garrett Cole for a part of the season when you didn't have them at all last season.

And even the guys you added at the deadline, like Ryan McMahon is your third baseman. Meanwhile, for the first four months of the year, you were trotting out Oswald Paraza and his 157 batting. That's not entirely true. The first month was Cabrero who had a good month until he broke his ankle in Seattle. Okay. So from May to July. I think that's fair. Correct. And then you had the Anthony Volpe issue. And now you've got Caballero who could play the position. So it might be better. The guys you acquired at the deadline last year, unlike what the Mets did, they brought in rentals. You brought in guys who can help you in year two. And Ryan McMahon, as flawed as he is, is a major upgrade over what you had prior to the trade deadline at third base. Jose Caballero may be a major upgrade over what you had at shortstop. Bednar might be not be blowing the games. Devin Williams blew early. Absolutely. You had a guy lose his closer's job, then get it back, and then a reliever got hurt, and then he came back, and he wasn't good. Like, Luis Heel was not there at the meeting of the year.

So now a lot of those things are questions. I can't guarantee him, but those are your reasons why, despite not having a sexy offseason, I can certainly make the case. You can improve by five games, win 100 games and win the ALE East. Right. And Toronto lost Bichette. And obviously, you know, Boston lost Bregman as well. Yeah, but that part's not fair.

So you took it to a wrong step.

Why? Because Toronto lost Bichette. And obviously, you know, Boston lost Bregman as well. So that's important.

Yeah, but that part's not fair. So you took it to a wrong step.

Because Toronto also added Dylan C's and you never mentioned it. Or Akamoto, you never mentioned it. You just brought up the guys they lost. Well, first of all. Same thing with Boston. Like, yes, they lost Alex Bregman 100%, but they added to their rotation significantly. And you can save the tape.

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