Cody Bellinger is the AL Platinum Glove. Is he playing out of position?

Congrats to Cody Bellinger, who last week won the 15th annual AL Platinum Glove, an award that somehow weighs catchers with shortstops, right fielders with second basemen, spark plugs with lug nuts, peanut butter with jelly...

It's another fukkin logarithm, obviously. Speaking for all who cannot explain what a logarithm is, let me assure you that Belly deserves his trophy, at least as much as Rex Harrison deserved his 1965 Oscar for My Fair Lady, brambling through his Broadway role, while Peter Sellers was being criminally overlooked for Dr. Strangelove. It needs to be said, people: Awards are bullshit, and that's not even mentioning the 2026 FIFA Peace Prize.

Listen: There is an eloquent argument to be made that the Yankees should leave Belly in left field for at least the next two years, if only so he can win more awards. He is our goalie, our sentry, our Lawrence Taylor (or, let's say it, our Arvell Reese?), and let's not disturb a genius at work, especially in our most iconic position. 

That said... (clears throat)... 10 thoughts.

1. It's time to accept the Milwaukee Model - you win with speed, plate discipline, pitching and defense, defense, defense. Moving Bellinger to CF would follow that plan. 

2. Belly in CF would instantly improve our defense, involving our best glove into more plays.  

3. The Yankees have no other great-glove CF on their roster.

4. Trent Grisholm is gone; last year, he ran out of gas anyway.

5. Spencer Jones might someday be a solid CF, but for now, he takes bad routes and watches catchable balls drop. They assured us he was ready, but he doesn't look comfortable.

6. I cannot escape the cataclysmic terror of Jones colliding with Aaron Judge in right-center. Dear God. Such a seismic event would end Yankee civilization, as it did the dinosaurs. Belly is far less likely to run headlong into Doomsday. 

7. For all his speed, The Martian, Jasson Dominguez, will never be a CF. It's not certain if he can play OF.

8. To sign or trade for a defensive CF would add to an OF logjam.

9. Moving Judge to CF would abuse him. 

10. WTF? We have nobody else.

My guess is that the Yankees will go with Jones, who remains the most tantalizing prospect in the system. 

So much for the Milwaukee Model, eh? It's not the Yankee way.