2019 MVP gets scared, solves what Yankees pointed out, and ranks 8th in the Ego FA rankings
Aug 23, 2025
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Bellinger, who was traded from the Chicago Cubs in December last year, is playing his part in the Yankees this season. As of the 22nd (Korea time), he has a batting average of 0.272 (124 hits in 456 at-bats), 24 home runs, 75 RBIs, 69 runs, an OPS of 0.821, and a bWAR of 3.7 in 117 games. bWAR is expected to exceed the 4-point range in two years following 2023 (4.8).
He succeeded in reviving the Cubs in 2023 and then went to the FA market and re-signed with the Cubs for three years and $80 million. The reason why he was not offered a long-term contract of more than $200 million was because he played only 130 games that year due to injuries.
Agent Scott Boras signed a three-year contract and set 2025 ($27.5 million) and 2026 ($25 million) as player options to target the FA market again. Last winter, he was traded to the Yankees after not implementing this option. This is because he did not meet expectations with a batting average of 0.266, 18 homers and an OPS of 0.751 in 130 games.
However, after this season, there is a very high possibility of exercising next year's option. This is because the quality of the batting reminds him of 2019, when he won the NL MVP in the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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When Bellinger became an FA at the end of 2023, the Yankees actually considered recruiting him. However, internally, he decided that his detailed indicators were not worth a large amount of money, so he abandoned his plan, and eventually stayed with the Cubs. The detailed indicators were batting speed and hard hit ratio.
However, the Yankees, who are watching Bellinger's batting right in front of their eyes this season, are expected to make efforts to collapse if he opts out.
MLB.com posted on the 23rd 'Who will go to the FA market this winter? Putting Bellinger in eighth place in the article titled `Here's the Top 10'…`Bellinger is in the second season of a three-year, $80 million contract, and most people expect him to give up $25 million next year and launch his opt-out right to go to the FA market this winter.`````.
Bellinger, who was injured frequently, is doing his job perfectly with the Yankees, but other teams can make efforts to get him out of New York. Of course, we will need a long-term contract that has turned a blind eye to him so far. In addition, he pointed out the Yankees, the Houston Astros, and the Philadelphia Phillies as potential demand clubs.
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He then won the NL MVP in 156 games in 2019, hitting a batting average of 0.305, 47 homers, 115 RBIs, and 1.035 OPS, and was born as the best star. At the time, bWAR 8.7 was the No. 1 player in both leagues, and local media expected it to be the second-largest ransom after LA Angels Mike Trout later. Trout surprised the world by signing a 12-year, $426.5 million extension in March of that year. Of course, a few years later, all these records were broken by Shohei Ohtani.
However, Bellinger has not been able to stop falling for a long time since then. It was because of the injury, but after hitting a solo home run in the seventh inning of Game 7 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Atlanta Braves in 2020, he injured his left shoulder while performing a violent ceremony with Kiki Hernandez. Eventually, I had surgery that winter, and it collapsed sharply from 2021.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
