{"id":22258,"date":"2024-12-18T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22258"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T02:23:18","slug":"a-change-will-do-you-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-change-will-do-you-good\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change Will Do You Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In a move that was expected after last week’s Kyle Tucker<\/a> trade, the Cubs have sent Cody Bellinger, along with cash considerations, to the Yankees.\u00a0 In exchange, they receive Cody Poteet, a 30-year-old relief pitcher with 24 career major league appearances.<\/p>\n

Bellinger, a former MVP, is owed $52.5 million over the next two seasons, with the Cubs will be sending $5 million to help cover that cost. He hit .286 with 44 home runs and 175 RBIs in his two seasons on the north side.\u00a0 When he suits up for the Yankees, he, and his father Clay, will become the fourth father\/son duo to play for the team, joining Mark Leiter and Mark Leiter Jr., Ron and Ike Davis, and Yogi and Dale Berra.<\/p>\n

This is a salary dump, pure and simple.\u00a0 What, if anything, the Cubs do with that money will determine if this trade is a winner or a loser.<\/p>\n

Bellinger’s numbers in a Cubs uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:<\/p>\n

Career Batting<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

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In a move that was expected after last week’s Kyle Tucker trade, the Cubs have sent Cody Bellinger, along with cash considerations, to the Yankees.\u00a0 In exchange, they receive Cody Poteet, a 30-year-old relief pitcher with 24 career major league appearances. Bellinger, a former MVP, is owed $52.5 million over the next two seasons, with […]<\/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":[11684,7641,11683,120,11687,11686,9807,11514,10772,79,11685,51,5649],"class_list":["post-22258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-clay-bellinger","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-cody-poteet","tag-cubs","tag-dale-berra","tag-ike-davis","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-mark-leiter","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mvp","tag-ron-davis","tag-yankees","tag-yogi-berra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258","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=22258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22259,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions\/22259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

BA<\/span><\/th>\nAt Bats<\/span><\/th>\nRuns<\/span><\/th>\nHits<\/span><\/th>\nRBI<\/span><\/th>\nWalks<\/span><\/th>\nStrike Outs<\/span><\/th>\nDoubles<\/span><\/th>\nTriples<\/span><\/th>\nHR<\/span><\/th>\nSB<\/span><\/th>\nGIDP<\/span><\/th>\nErrors<\/span><\/th>\nGames<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
0.185<\/span><\/td>\n54<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n0<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0.286<\/span><\/td>\n1015<\/span><\/td>\n167<\/span><\/td>\n290<\/span><\/td>\n175<\/span><\/td>\n85<\/span><\/td>\n176<\/span><\/td>\n52<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n44<\/span><\/td>\n29<\/span><\/td>\n17<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n260<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n