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You don't have to add money to a deal to sweeten the pot if nobody else is there.

Okay?

He got body slammed?

YPM was doing their best work on this signing here.

They wanted to make you know that Brian Cashman outplayed Scott Boras, which he didn't do.

Scott Boras maybe overshot a little bit here, asking for seven years and $200-plus million for Cody Bellinger, but he got five and 162 for him from the Yankees.

Nobody else was even in that stratosphere.

The Yankees did not body slam Scott Boris.

Brian Cashman did not hit the stone cold stunner on Scott Boris in this deal.

The Yankees got a deal that they liked more than a seven year deal.

But Scott Boris also got the best possible deal for his client a lot more than anybody else was willing to offer him.

So don't let the YPM, don't let the Yankee propaganda machine fool you into thinking the Yankees got one over on Scott Boris.

The Yankees want to think that they got one over on Scott Boris after what happened with Juan Soto last year, but that's not the case.

When you're paying a guy like Cody Bellinger $84 million over the course of the first two years of this contract, you didn't win.

It's maybe how you want it to contract structured.

It may be something that you feel comfortable with, but when you have to add $2.5 million to the 160 that you already offered to get the deal done, you didn't win.

You didn't body slam anybody.

Scott Boras still did right by his clients.

Scott Boras still made a hell of a deal for Cody Bellinger, a guy that was salary dumped in the offseason of 2024.

He got this guy $162.5 guaranteed million dollars.