LAS VEGAS — The easiest and cleanest domino to fall to set up the Yankees’ ideal offseason would be for Cody Bellinger to re-sign .

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There would be more moves to make around it, of course, but less heavy lifting than the alternative.

Because if Bellinger ends up being one-and-done in The Bronx, then what?

Bellinger does not just fill an outfield spot — likely center field if Trent Grisham declines the $22.025 million qualifying offer and signs elsewhere, or left field if he accepts it — but the left-handed hitter offers a legitimate threat to provide protection behind Aaron Judge, as he did

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