TAMPA — Cody Bellinger belongs on the Yankees, not simply 1) as a result of he has the right left-handed stroke for the Stadium’s quick porch or 2) as a result of he beautifully performs three of the 4 positions the Yankees wanted most.
It’s that hard-to-believe Bellinger household file that makes this an ideal match. If there’s anybody as profitable because the Yankees at attending to the World Sequence over time, it’s the Bellinger clan.
They’re baseball’s model of the four-leaf clover. Cody’s already performed on three World Sequence groups in eight big-league seasons, and he isn’t practically as lucky as his dad, Clay, who’s tied for baseball’s all-time champion of October, at the least by share.
Simply how fortunate was Clay Bellinger? He’s one in all solely three gamers to play at the least 4 years, and all for World Sequence groups (the 1999-01 Yankees and ’02 Angels). That is trivia identified solely by the Elias Sports activities Bureau, however the one others to go 4-for-4 in reaching the World Sequence are infielder Mike Gazella, who did it with the Yankees between 1923 and ’28, and pitcher Kemp Wicker, who did it between 1936 and ’41 with the Yankees and Dodgers.