{"id":21178,"date":"2024-02-25T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:42:17","slug":"bellis-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bellis-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Belli&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21179\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bellinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bellinger.jpg 544w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bellinger-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/>A week into spring training, the Cubs made perhaps their biggest move of the offseason, bringing back Cody Bellinger on a three-year, $80 million contract.\u00a0 Bellinger, who was looking for a long-term deal in the $200 million neighborhood, has the ability to opt-out of the deal after the first two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Bellinger, who won the 2019 NL MVP award for the Dodgers, had a strong season with the Cubs in 2023 after years of injuries and struggles knocked his career trajectory off track.\u00a0 He notched his highest totals in home runs, RBIs, average, OPS+, and WAR since that 2019 season.\u00a0 Hoping to turn that success into long-term security, he turned down his option for the 2024 season and became a free agent.\u00a0 The deal he was looking for, however, was nowhere to be found, likely because he has to prove that last year&#8217;s performance was the start of a trend and not a one-time resurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week into spring training, the Cubs made perhaps their biggest move of the offseason, bringing back Cody Bellinger on a three-year, $80 million contract.\u00a0 Bellinger, who was looking for a long-term deal in the $200 million neighborhood, has the ability to opt-out of the deal after the first two seasons. Bellinger, who won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7641,120,116,79],"class_list":["post-21178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-mvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}