Cubs trade Cody Bellinger to Yankees in a salary dump

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00:00Is the cubs finally made a move that they've been trying to make

00:05But it feels a little

00:08dumpy

00:11This is a salary dump trade by the cubs

00:16And they will be pressed

00:19by many including me

00:22To reallocate this money to other things on the roster cody bellinger

00:28Opted in

00:30To the last two years of his deal with 52 million point five 52.5 million remaining

00:36Uh, the cubs were not happy that he opted in they wanted to trade him wanted to trade him to the yankees

00:42There was always talk that the cubs were going to eat some money maybe 10 million dollars

00:46Of the salary they end up eating only five million dollars. Wow, that's great of the salary

00:52But doesn't that usually mean if you do something like that?

00:54You don't get the return that you'd want on a player that you're acquiring lawrence

00:58They got a 30 year old swing man named cody potete who?

01:03Threw four starts last year pretty much as a fill-in for nester cortez was left off the yankees playoff roster

01:12They were four good starts as a fill-in swing man

01:16That's nice marcus stroman bad nester cortez hurt give cody potete a shot and the yankees did through four decent starts

01:23But left off the playoff roster because he's a guy 30 years old throws

01:3094 93 with a slider a change at 87

01:34He's um a swing man, and he is depth the yankees had him as starter depth at triple a we'll keep looking in the box

01:42Is there anything else in the box that the cubs got back or no?

01:45They got a lot of salary relief of cody bellinger's uh, cody bellinger's contract

01:51They'll slide kyle tucker in as a far far better

01:55right fielder in terms of offense and

01:58five tools

01:59But tucker making less than cody bellinger, correct, correct tucker making a around 17 mil

02:06That should wow. They have cleared a lot of money should give the cubs room to do some more stuff

02:12And there better be some more stuff coming