So we were all focused on football over the weekend, but Buster only dropped the spicy

meatball as the football craziness was going on. He says the Yankees now operating under the

assumption, Cody Bellinger will sign elsewhere. This is Bellinger and the Yankees are at an

impasse over length of contract. A pivot plan is unclear for the pinstripes, but according

to all mean, they remain engaged on both Bo Bichette and Kyle Tucker as well as trades. Yeah. Is this Boris overplaying? This is the New York Yankees

feeling exactly what the Mets felt a year ago with Pete. Scott Boris is insisting on a contract

that is not out there for Cody Bellinger. The Yankees feel they've made a more than fair offer. It's now being reported at about five years, 155, which is exactly what Kyle Schwerber and Pete Alonzo got. Scott Boris is insisting on seven years. And before we just kill Scott Boris for it, Cody Bellinger may be doing it. Cody Bellinger may be saying, I ain't signed it for five years. I want seven years. And so as Boris insists on this contract, the Yankees are saying, dude, if you got it somewhere else, show it to us. He doesn't have it anywhere else. In fact, I haven't heard one reported offer for Cody Bellinger outside of the one that's come from the Yankees. And so I think the Yankees are doing with the Mets did a year ago in which they leaked out. They are under the impression Pete is leaving. They signed Jesse Winker. We're moving on. And I think that's exactly what's happening. And much like how it ended with Pete, I don't think there's a robust market for

Bellinger the way Boris wants it to be. I don't think any team is going to exceed the five-year

155. And so Yankee fans, calm down. You're going to get them. I have no reason to believe this is

going to end with a breakup between the Yankees and Cody Bellinger unless the Yankees want to break up by moving on to somebody else which I don't think they'll do.

Well, we're not hearing anything about that.

The only thing you're hearing about Cody Bellinger is that other teams like the Mets

would be interested once there's no bidding war with the Yankees.

And that's not happening because there is no bidding war. The Yankees. And that's not happening.

Because there is no bidding war. The Yankees know what they want to spend. And with no one else bidding, why would they go higher? Well, the Mets are never going to give Cody Ballinger where the Yankees are at. They're not going to five years, 155. Right, because David Sterns doesn't do that with anybody. If the only well, it does it with Juan Soto.

There's your exception. The one exception.

The one contract, the Mets have handed out longer than three years in the David Stern's era is Juan Soto. Like I was going through it last night. You look at Shalmaniah and Luis Severino and any other deal they made have all been short-term deal, so there's a consistency. The Mets are not involved in Cody Bellinger unless the Yankees decide to move on. But I don't think the Yankees are going to move on. And I think the Yankees are wise, especially if they want the player back, to continue to stare down Scott Boris and say, go get a better offer for them. He's not going to get one. One's not coming. The only way it could happen, I'll paint you a scenario. And this will now pivot to the Kyle Tucker discussion. So right now, the New York Mets are trying to sign Kyle Tucker. So with the L.A. Dodgers, so with the Toronto Blue Jays. It feels like the Blue Jays are going long term. The Dodgers and the Mets are both trying to get a shortish term deal with maybe multiple opt-outs. If the Blue Jays miss on Bellinger, he ends up with the Mets or he ends up with the Dodgers, more on Tucker in a second, then could Toronto say, whoa, oh, hey, let's go hard after Bellinger? Absolutely. And I think the Blue Jays could then be a threat.

But if I'm the Yankees, I continue to look at Scott Boris and say, you're a move, bro. Yeah. We made a five-year 155, and that's it. We're not going further than that. We're not going to negotiate against ourselves. The thing about Kyle Tucker is this. Met fans, are they trying to sign Kyle Tucker? they are, they're trying to sign them.

Do I have confidence that they are going to present the best offer and the best situation over both the Dodgers and the Blue Jays? Absolutely not. And that's where I don't have the confidence they will end up with. But Kyle Tucker's young enough where instead of demanding, like Cody Bellinger, this massive long-term deal, he should go some place, like the Dodgers, and this is the same conversation we had about Scoobel,

about two weeks, three weeks ago, Evan, go to the Dodgers, crush it, win a championship,

and then go back into free agency.

Yeah.

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