Christian

And the additional piece of information from Klapisch was that the Yankees are prepared to walk if there is a bidding war, which...

I know my initial take was six for 180.

That's where I would go with Cody Bellinger.

That's where I would feel comfortable.

I also know I've said if you feel comfortable at five, you should feel comfortable at seven.

I know I said all those things.

Nobody's got a seven-year deal on the table for Cody Bellinger, so the Yankees don't have to offer Cody Bellinger

a seventh year if nobody else is doing it.

If you have the balls to sit there and tell everybody you're not getting into a bidding war, then what was this whole offseason here?

Just playing games?

If you put all your eggs into the Cody Bellinger basket and then are not willing to get into a bidding war should one arise, then I don't know what we did all season.

We're less than four weeks away from the Yankees starting spring training, and they haven't made any additions to this team to get them closer to being a world championship team.

Now, adding Cody Bellinger back to a team that lost in the ALDS doesn't get them any closer.

It just brings back the status quo.

So if you really thought you were Garrett Cole away from winning a World Series and then don't bring back Cody Bellinger, how do you make that argument to the fan base?

So you can't put all your eggs in the Cody Bellinger basket and then say, oh, we're not going to get into a bidding war.

I mean, that might be tough talk to Scott Boris and Cody Bellinger, like, hey, take it or leave it.

But if that's true, if that's out there because that's what the Yankees are going to do, then you failed and you failed miserably.

Because you have no backup plans.

You have no backup plans to Cody Bellinger should he get another deal, one that you would have to compete with in this market.