It took Cody Bellinger and the Yankees three-fourths of the offseason to figure out what everyone already knew: he was going to end up back in the Bronx. On Wednesday, he signed a five-year, $162.5 million deal with New York to end what's been a needlessly protracted saga.
The Dodgers were probably loosely interested in Bellinger at some point, as rumors suggested, but his long back-and-forth with the Yankees was based on his and Scott Boras' stubbornness on the length of the deal. The Dodgers would never have been willing to give him more than four years — five at an absolute stretch — so a reunion always seemed unlikely.