Cody Bellinger experienced World Series title with dad Clay at old Yankee Stadium

NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Bellinger experienced a World Series title at old Yankee Stadium.

That's when his dad Clay was part of the 1999 and 2000 champions.

“I have small memories of like the playroom, the kids' playroom that I would go to during the games,” Cody said Thursday, two days after New York acquired him from the Chicago Cubs. “My mom did a great job with the camcorder and so we would watch replays of it growing up and then it kind of helps me remember what we were doing out there when I was 5 or 6.”

He also has memories of his dad in the minors.

“I was the bat boy," Cody said. "That was always really, really cool for me to be able to run out on the field and pick up the players' bats and shag their batting practice,"

Bellinger figures to play outfield or first base with the Yankees, who are retooling after the loss to Juan Soto to the Mets. Left-hander Max Fried was added to the starting rotation and closer Devin Williams to the bullpen.

Clay Bellinger was an outfielder and infielder for the Yankees from 1999 to 2001, then finished his big league career with the Anaheim Angels in 2002. In Game 2 of the 2000 World Series, he caught Todd Zeile's drive off Mariano Rivera at the top of the left-field wall.

“It is truly wild. When I got the news, I called him and he was very excited," Cody said of his dad. "He plays it all cool. But I know deep down he’s really excited.”

Cody won the 2019 NL MVP award with the Los Angeles Dodgers after hitting .305 with 47 homers, 115 RBIs and a 1.035 OPS.

He followed with three straight subpar seasons, missing time in 2021 because of calf, hamstring and rib injuries. He was cut after the 2022 season and signed a $17.5 million, one-year deal with the Cubs.

Bellinger hit a career-high .307 with 29 homers and 97 RBIs, became a free agent again and in late February signed an $80 million, three-year contract with the Cubs that allowed him to opt out after 2024 and 25.

He hit .266 with 18 homers and 78 RBIs in 130 games this year, missing time because of a broken right rib. The Cubs traded the 29-year-old with $52.5 million remaining on the contract and agreed to pay the Yankees $5 million.

If the Yankees acquire a first baseman, they could align Bellinger in center with Aaron Judge in right and Jasson Domínguez in left or put Domínguez in center and Bellinger in left.

Bellinger learned how to stay sharp at multiple positions from former Dodgers teammate Kiké Hernández and told manager Aaron Boone he's flexible.

“I told him that wherever y’all need me to play, I’ll play, whether it’s left, center. If Judge gets a DH day, I’ll play right, or if you need me at first base, I’ll play first,” he said. “I enjoy doing that stuff. I think that it helps the teams that I’m on win.”

A left-handed hitter, Bellinger could benefit from Yankee Stadium's short porch. New York has 87 games with those dimensions because the Tampa Bay Rays will be playing home games at Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees' spring training site.

Bellinger has played just three games in the Bronx, going 3 for 10 with a home run off Carlos Rodón in July 2023 that landed in the right field second deck.

“It definitely excites me,” he said.

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FILE - Chicago Cubs' Cody Bellinger celebrates after scoring on a home run by Isaac Paredes during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

FILE - Chicago Cubs' Cody Bellinger hits a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

FILE - Chandler Ariz., coach Clay Bellinger, left, smiles at his son and Arizona player Cody Bellinger as they come into the dugout in the third inning against Salisbury, Md., during the 2007 Little League World Series pool play in South Williamsport, Pa., on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - National League Rookie of the Year Cody Bellinger, left, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, receives his award from his father Clay Bellinger during the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America annual dinner in New York, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street's two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter.

Goldman Sachs's net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, or $14.01 a share. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley said it earned $4.4 billion, or $2.68 per share, compared to a profit of $3.71 billion, or $2.22 per share, compared to a year earlier.

Wall Street has been bolstered by the Trump administration's deregulatory policies, which has led corporations to seek out mergers and acquisitions, as well as the surge of investor interest in artificial intelligence companies and those who stand to benefit from the mass adoption of technologies like ChatGPT.

Fourth-quarter investment fee revenues over at Goldman were up 25% year-over-year and Morgan Stanley saw a 47% jump in revenue in its investment banking division. Both banks said their investment fee backlog, which is a signal of how much deal making is still pending that banks are working on, increased significantly in the fourth quarter.

Goldman and Morgan's results reflect the strong earnings out of the other big banks that reported their results this week. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup all saw jumps in fourth-quarter profits, but their results were dampened by the ongoing tensions that Wall Street is having with the White House over the issue of the independence of the Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump's interest in capping credit card interest rates at 10%.

Along with a strong investment banking performance, Goldman Sachs also agreed to sell off its Apple Card credit card portfolio to JPMorgan Chase last week, effectively exiting its brief experiment in consumer banking. The bank sold the credit card portfolio at a discount to JPMorgan, a sign of how desperately Goldman wanted to exit the business and put the Apple Card behind it.

This story has been corrected to show that Morgan Stanley's investment banking revenues rose 47%, not 22%.

FILE - Electronic signage is shown at Morgan Stanley headquarters, Thursday, March 4, 2021 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, the logo for Goldman Sachs appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)