When the New York Yankees completed their offseason trade for Cody Bellinger, they knew they'd soon be at a crossroads at the conclusion of 2025. Bellinger, who once looked like one of the faces of the sport after winning the NL Rookie of the Year back in 2017 and capturing the NL MVP after crushing 47 long balls in 2019, has had quite the strange baseball journey.
After injuries and plummeting performance, the once-promising star was unceremoniously non-tendered by the Los Angeles Dodgers, only to be picked up by the Chicago Cubs and post a 2023 campaign that neared the lofty heights of his early-career performance.