NEW YORK — Ever since he was a kid watching his father Clay play for the Yankees in the early 2000s, Cody Bellinger visualized himself in Pinstripes someday. That thought never left him, even after his career whisked him far away from the Bronx.

This is the Cody Bellinger the Yankees envisioned when he became one of the centerpieces of their post-Juan Soto pivot.

Cody Bellinger was trying to do too much at the start of his Yankees tenure, but now, his poise has returned and the result has been glaring.