Belli To Yanks

[oso4lyf]

Cody Bellinger traded to Yanks for Cody Poteet

 

[Discus fish salesman]

The following moves will decide whether I like this or hate it. I'm assuming I'll hate it

 

[Diehardfan]

Another Hoyer special.....30 year old pitcher who has never done anything in MLB. Roughly 80 major league innings. A fucking salary dump that SMALL market teams regularly do.....in CHICAGO. More suckass management in this city......

 

[knoxville7]

Another Hoyer special.....30 year old pitcher who has never done anything in MLB. Roughly 80 major league innings. A fucking salary dump that SMALL market teams regularly do.....in CHICAGO. More suckass management in this city......

Agreed on Poteet being nothing special

But, I actually like the trade to get rid of Belli’s salary since he’s no longer needed on the roster and everyone knows it

The question becomes, what do they do with this freed up salary now? Do they get a closer? If not, then yeah…it’s a dump just to dump sake

 

[oso4lyf]

Agreed on Poteet being nothing special

But, I actually like the trade to get rid of Belli’s salary since he’s no longer needed on the roster and everyone knows it

The question becomes, what do they do with this freed up salary now? Do they get a closer? If not, then yeah…it’s a dump just to dump sake

One only hopes it's going to be used on Tucker. The initial optics of this trade is Yanks give up no one, Cubs owner saves money.

 

[TL1961]

I like Belli and would not be upset had he been on the team in 2025.

But the Cubs have OF prospects, and 4 OFs at the MLB level without him, and need payroll flexibility. They were likely hoping he'd opt out and they would have had nothing, which was part of the deal in offering the options.

So if they end up with the salary relief and and arm out of the deal, I am not going to be too upset. I will echo what has been said already - if they don't use that $ elsewhere, then I will be. But I expect this offseason that they will.