“We like our players,’’ Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said at the winter meetings in December. “That is a fact.”
A month prior, at the GM meetings, Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns struck a different tone regarding his roster. “It’s a recognition that what we did last year wasn’t good enough,” Stearns said, “and running it back with the exact same group wasn’t the right thing to do.”
Neither was lying.
The Yankees and Cody Bellinger finally agreed Wednesday to their long-awaited reunion in the biggest splash of a quiet offseason. It’s a five-year, $162.5 million deal with opt-outs after the second and third years.
