{"id":130716,"date":"2025-12-15T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=130716"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:27:20","slug":"yankees-explosion-new-york-is-reportedly-about-to-land-a-183m-mvp-a-move-echoing-schwarbers-monster-deal-and-the-league-is-reeling-fans-are-buzzing-rivals-sweating-and-every-pitch-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=130716","title":{"rendered":"YANKEES EXPLOSION: New York is reportedly about to land a $183M MVP, a move echoing Schwarber\u2019s monster deal, and the league is reeling. Fans are buzzing, rivals sweating, and every pitch feels like it could be a seismic shift in the East. One signing, one statement, and the Yankees are making it crystal clear\u2014they\u2019re all in for domination..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-24295\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brian-Cashman-Yankees-Cody-Bellinger-free-agent-sign.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brian-Cashman-Yankees-Cody-Bellinger-free-agent-sign.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brian-Cashman-Yankees-Cody-Bellinger-free-agent-sign.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brian-Cashman-Yankees-Cody-Bellinger-free-agent-sign.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Set to Land $183 Million MVP in a Deal Modeled After Schwarber \u26a1 lt \u2013 Sportnika linkxtop\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"128\" data-img-load-time=\"61\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball\u2019s annual Winter Meetings, which wrapped up on Wednesday, were mostly quiet this year \u2014 but they were especially quiet for the\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0who \u2014 after falling short in the American League Division Series \u2014\u00a0left the meetings without making\u00a0a single player acquisition or transaction of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0report, their total lack of action marked the first time since 2018 that baseball\u2019s most storied franchise and the one that has\u00a0historically been the splashiest\u00a0and most aggressive on the free agent market, stood pat at the Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>(The meetings were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/p>\n<p>But two full months remain before the opening of spring training \u2014 and even that date is not a deadline for getting deals made and free agents signed. There are still talented players on the market and one in particular appears, at least according to multiple media reports, to be in Cashman\u2019s sights \u2014\u00a0outfielder and 2019 National League MVP\u00a0Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fdad1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/598448333_786072284484089_7885511133277420860_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296_tt6&amp;_nc_cat=102&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_ohc=LF8-zWczpcwQ7kNvwHyoJN2&amp;_nc_oc=AdlaqquTREeci_EDropSOa4U_RFkqdbHRi0UmuzrFwcbjAoQq9FgBF1rKdGxI3D549M&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fdad1-2.fna&amp;_nc_gid=aiNmso6JLo6kNc55LLktZg&amp;oh=00_Aflfk4rGTALprL4vzQ0CEoQmKh7h70xwMKCZcBPEfe7Q1g&amp;oe=69459C55\" alt=\"C\u00f3 th\u1ec3 l\u00e0 h\u00ecnh \u1ea3nh v\u1ec1 v\u0103n b\u1ea3n cho bi\u1ebft 'HERE INER 006009. 000 GOOO P ANKA ASKTOALL TL BREAKING'\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Read More From Heavy<\/p>\n<p>Yankees Expected to Cut Ties With \u2018Unhittable\u2019 Righty Relief Pitcher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Bellinger Opted Out After Single Season in Bronx<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a030-year-old 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers\u00a0fourth-round draft pick spent the 2025 season in the Bronx where he played the second season of the\u00a0three-year, $80 million deal he signed\u00a0with the\u00a0Chicago Cubs\u00a0before the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>The deal contained player options, also known as \u201copt outs,\u201d after the first and second seasons. After the second year of the deal, his sole season in New York, Bellinger \u2014 after belting 29 home runs with an .813 OPS, third-highest of his nine-year career \u2014 took the opt out and became a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Yankees plan to re-sign Bellinger, when will they get around to it?<\/p>\n<p>Yankees\u2019 longtime general manager Brian Cashman\u2019s lackadaisical approach to the offseason so far has put many Yankee fans in \u201cpanic mode,\u201d\u00a0as the\u00a0Locked on Yankees\u00a0podcast\u00a0phrased it on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New York Yankees need to get their offseason act together, because right now this front office looks like it\u2019s running a yard sale instead of a franchise worth billions,\u201d wrote Robert Casey, founder of the popular\u00a0Yankee fan blog\u00a0Bleeding Yankee Blue\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Read More From Heavy<\/p>\n<p>Yankees Cut Ties With $3.8 Million 6-Year Veteran Righty Reliever<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Bellinger Signing on the Way, Maybe<\/h2>\n<p>According to reporter Inna Zeyger of the Yankees\u00a0news site\u00a0Pinstripes Nation, the answer to the question of when the Yankees will get Bellinger back to Yankee Stadium is \u2014 \u201ceventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason, Zeyger wrote, is that another free agent outfielder \u2014 former Cub Kyle Tucker \u2014 is expected to set the price tag for \u201celite position players, and teams have shown hesitation about fully committing to other alternatives until his situation resolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to re-signing Bellinger, \u201cremaining patient prevents New York from competing against itself while market conditions stay uncertain,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Pinstripes Nation<\/em>\u00a0scribe wrote.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Read More From Heavy<\/p>\n<p>Yankees Face Final Decision on Fate of $6.6 Million Bullpen Arm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Size of Bellinger\u2019s Contract Remains Uncertain<\/h2>\n<p>Tucker may be setting the market, but there are still some benchmarks for assessing what Bellinger will cost the Yankees. After the Phillies\u2019 56-home-run-hitting designated hitter Kyle Schwarber, also a free agent, agreed to return to Philadelphia on\u00a0a five-year, $150 million contract, Yankees correspondent Pete Caldera of\u00a0<em>NorthJersey.com<\/em>\u00a0predicted\u00a0that Bellinger\u00a0\u201cmight also find a Schwarber-type contract in this market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to an\u00a0estimate by the sports business site\u00a0<em>Spotrac<\/em>, Bellinger should do somewhat better than Schwarber, with a six-year contract worth $183 million, or $30.4 million per year compared to the $30 million that Schwarber will receive.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":130718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>YANKEES EXPLOSION: New York is reportedly about to land a $183M MVP, a move echoing Schwarber\u2019s monster deal, and the league is reeling. 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