Free agent Archie Bradley’s latest IG hints at future with Yankees

Coveted free agent reliever Archie Bradley is out here rocking a CC Sabathia jersey? Come to the Yankees, please.

Tuesday brought the first unpleasant Yankees rumors of the entire Winter Meetings cycle, confirming a suspicion we had deep down.

If the free agent’s name isn’t DJ LeMahieu, the Yanks don’t really plan to spend much on the open market — and even that acquisition isn’t any sort of slam dunk. Neat.

But the team has needs, and those reports felt more like adequate expectations setting rather than a declaration that no money would flow. There’s probably an attempted sixth-inning bullpen bridge coming, as well as some additional starters from the bargain bin. Don’t all get too excited now!

In this current down period, though, we at least saw a ray of light late Tuesday night. Free agent reliever Archie Bradley took to social media to post a photo of himself fishing…and prominently wearing a Yankees jersey, displaying CC Sabathia’s No. 52 in the process.

Does it matter? I mean…probably! Why would you post this if it didn’t matter?!

Bradley and Sabathia get along well, to contextualize this, and the former Reds and D-Backs reliever is noted as one of the best guests in the history of CC and Ryan Ruocco’s R2C2 podcast. But in a whirlwind free agency period, any little social media hint deserves center stage treatment. And this is more than a hint. It’s an authentic jersey!

This was a huge few days for hinting on social media in Yankeeland. Earlier in the week, DJ LeMahieu popped onto his Instagram for the first time in, like, months to post a story about him using Aaron Judge’s bat in BP.

It simply has to mean something! Or it doesn’t. But it should!

Hopefully the action is about to pick up — specifically, the action that brings LeMahieu and Bradley to the Bronx.

That’s the action we’d prefer.

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