Programming note: I’m going for a minor surgery Monday morning. Better me than a Yankee, right? It’s nothing serious. Just an achy body part that it’s time to get fixed after ignoring it and hoping it would get better on its own didn’t work. I know right before Opening Day is not great timing, but that's when they told me to come in, so that's when I’m going in. I’ll be home Monday afternoon. It’s not a stay at the hospital thing.
Here is my tentative plan for next week:
Monday: Tuesday’s post a day early
Tuesday: 2026 Bold Predictions (here are last year’s)
Wednesday: Some kinda Opening Day preview
Thursday: Quick Opening Day reaction
Friday: Regular Friday post
You can write Monday and Tuesday in pen. I’ll have those posts done this weekend. The rest of the week is up in the air. I’d like to write all that stuff, but I can’t make any promises. They told me I’ll be sore and cranky, and to take it easy for a few days after surgery. I’ll see how I feel and do my best next week. Thanks for understanding. I’m looking forward to being as good as new soon. Let’s get into today’s post.
1. Venezuela wins the WBC. Despite all that talent, USA’s offense no-showed in the most important games of the World Baseball Classic. Who do they think they are, the Yankees in October? (I kid, I kid.) USA scored four runs in their final two games, all on home runs, and they didn’t have a single at-bat – not hit, at-bat – with runners in scoring position in Tuesday’s Championship Game. Yeesh.
“I'm not going to make any excuses for us,” Mark DeRosa said after Tuesday’s loss. “…Ultimately it's who gets hot at the right time. Who gets a big swing. It just seemed like we couldn't get the offense going the entire tournament. For whatever reason, we just couldn't get it rolling offensively.”
Is that not indistinguishable from an Aaron Boone post-elimination comment? Anyway, USA’s pitching and defense was mostly great throughout the WBC, but the offense finished sixth in AVG (.250), fifth in OBP (.368), and seventh in SLG (.428) among the 20 teams. A team with Aaron Judge, Cal Raleigh, Kyle Schwarber, Bobby Witt Jr., et al got outslugged by Australia. Stupid sport, man.
Funny enough, Venezuela was a chronic underachiever until this WBC. They should be a powerhouse (FOX talked about Venezuela beating USA like the Rockies sweeping the Dodgers for some reason), yet they finished seventh, third, tenth, eighth, and fifth in the five previous WBCs. That includes a 2-5 (-27 run differential) showing in 2017. From underachiever to champion, just like that. It can happen any year.
Over 162 games, USA would be the best team in the sport. For seven games in March, they weren’t. We can debate why until we’re blue in the face. It boils down to two reasonably evenly matched teams and one having to lose, similar to USA vs. Dominican Republic the other day. The WBC is a lot of fun and a very welcome distraction from Spring Training. I can’t wait for the next one.
“That was so weird. All the love that we feel for my Cap and obviously for this country, but at the end of the day, it’s my country. That’s where I’m coming from,” Oswaldo Cabrera told Bryan Hoch about rooting against Judge in the Championship Game. “The reaction in my house was incredible. My mom, my dad, my sister, everybody was crying at home because we know how much this means for us. All the criers and the feelings came out. We were so happy.”
2. Grapefruit League observations. Garrett Martin, a longshot prospect who slashed .222/.292/.389 (101 wRC+) with 14 homers and 23.8 K% in Double-A last year, smashed a game-tying homer in the ninth inning Thursday. Here’s the video. He hit that ball about as clean as you can hit a ball. Here is the Yankees’ Spring Training exit velocity leaderboard:
1. Garrett Martin: 115.4 mph (Thursday’s homer)2. Giancarlo Stanton: 115.3 mph (March 9th)3. Giancarlo Stanton: 113.2 mph (March 11th)4. Garrett Martin: 113.1 mph (March 13th)5. Randal Grichuk: 112.6 mph (March 11th)
Martin’s always been an exit velocity dude (he won the Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby two years ago) and it was fun to get a look at it late in a spring game. The joys of March. Otherwise it’s been an uneventful spring, in a good way. No major injuries, no controversies, nothing like that. Feels weird. I’m used to some unexpected nonsense in March. Here are a few thoughts on the last few games.
Cole returns
For the first time since Game 5 of the 2024 World Series, Gerrit Cole took the mound in an official game Wednesday. A Grapefruit League game, but an official game nonetheless. As planned, Cole threw one inning, and it was quick. Only 10 pitches. He gave up a bunt single on his first pitch and a line drive single later, and twice had to sprint to cover first. Cole got the full experience in his return.
“I had a lot of fun out there. It was very enjoyable,” Cole told Bryan Hoch after the game. “I just wanted to enjoy all of it. That was my goal for today. No reservations, try not to judge yourself too hard, and just have fun. Just go ahead and let it fly.”
Cole went to the bullpen after his inning to continue building his pitch count (30 or so was the target). Here are all 10 pitches and here’s the basic pitch data:
Cole hit the mitt well enough, and as much as anything, looked like a veteran starter going through the motions in Spring Training. That’s a good thing. I could’ve done without the knee-first slide on the bunt single, otherwise Cole threw free and easy, and looked pretty good for a guy 53 weeks out from Tommy John surgery. No red flags in the data, no surprise new pitch, nothing like that. Cole looked like Cole in March.
“I thought he looked good,” Aaron Boone told Hoch. “He looked strong, poised. Almost made a really good play right out of the chute that you kind of hold your breath on, but he got right into the mix. All of a sudden you’ve got a fast runner, you’ve got to control the running game and you’re trying to make pitches for the first time in that setting. I thought he handled it well.”
The Yankees have Cole on an every sixth day schedule this spring. Assuming that continues, his next few weeks could look like this:
Tuesday, March 24th: Minor league spring game
Monday, March 30th: Minor league spring game
Friday, April 3rd: Introductions at the home opener (Cole said he’ll be there)
Sunday, April 5th: Official minor league rehab game
That’s not official. I’m just counting days. Low-A Tampa will be home on April 5th, so figure that’s where Cole will pitch that day. I doubt the Yankees would send him into cold weather with Triple-A Scranton (they’ll be in Rochester), Double-A Somerset, or High-A Hudson Valley. Start the 60-day rehab clock on April 5th and the latest Cole could return is June 4th.
For now, Cole returned to game action for the first time since having his elbow rebuilt, and he looked like a Spring Training version of Gerrit Cole. Everything looked like it should stuff-wise, location-wise, mechanically, etc. It was a boring first game back and that’s exactly what I hoped to see. No surprises and things didn’t go off the rails. A good day, it was.
“It was a bit of a special day for me, getting out to compete again and feel the support from the crowd,” Cole told Hoch. “That feels good.”
Lagrange sent to minor league camp
Thursday the Yankees made official what was always the most likely outcome: Carlos Lagrange was reassigned to minor league camp. I guess technically he could still make the Opening Day roster (there is nothing in the rules that prevents it), but nah. Lagrange will begin the season in Scranton (probably) and I think we’ll see him at some point during the summer either as a starter or a reliever.
"He's made it a difficult decision. What he's done the last six weeks definitely made us think maybe he's closer than we think,” Boone told Gary Phillips. “… I would not be surprised if he is impacting us early, middle, later part of the season. I don't know, but I can just tell you we're all very excited about his continued development and what we think he can mean to our team at some point."
Lagrange had another great outing behind Cole Tuesday: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K on 60 pitches (video). He finishes Grapefruit League play with a 0.66 ERA (3.81 FIP) and 25.5 K% and 7.8 BB%, and walked only two of the final 38 batters he faced. That’s encouraging. The stuff is obviously electric. More electric than it has any right to be for a starting pitcher. An exciting spring for an exciting prospect, it was.
Escarra’s power
J.C. Escarra smashed his third home run of the spring Tuesday afternoon (video) and he took an actual big leaguer deep (Rays righty Ryan Pepiot). Escarra is 8-for-32 (.250) with only six strikeouts this spring. When he hit his first Grapefruit League homer a few weeks ago, I noted he’d set a new career high exit velocity. Well, here’s an update:
1. 109.6 mph (Feb. 27th, 2026)2. 108.4 mph (March 17th, 2026)3. 108.3 mph (March 8th, 2026)4. 108.3 mph (Sept. 19th, 2025)5. 107.5 mph (Aug. 2nd, 2025)
The three hardest hit balls of Escarra’s career have come this spring (the two hardest and tied for the third hardest, if you want to nitpick). When a guy sets a new career high exit velocity in Spring Training, it could just be a one-off, but if he hits multiple balls harder than ever before, you have to take notice. Ben Rice did exactly this last spring and it was the first clue a breakout season was coming.
“I think it has to be the torpedo bats,” Escarra told Greg Joyce. “… I found one that feels comfortable and they made it into how my swing works. So I’m seeing it through. I like to think it gives me a little bit of an edge. It gives me the biggest barrel that I can use, so maybe that pitch I used to miss, now I’m foul-tipping it and giving me another chance to hit. Maybe I just missed it and then the next one I hit it a little better. It’s all about the small advantages it gives me. If it is proven that it helps me, then I’m going to see it through and keep using it.”
Ah yes, torpedo bats. Remember those things? That was a fun weekend. Anyway, Escarra credited Zac Fieroh, one of the one-the-ground analytics guys, for finding the right bat, which is apparently an Aaron Judge model shaved down. If nothing else, new bat + new exit velocity heights = a reason to pay attention. Escarra’s a soon-to-be 31-year-old backup catcher. I won’t get too excited, but maybe?
Upcoming opt outs
It is the last week of Spring Training and therefore it is opt out season. Saturday is the trigger date, then the team has 48 hours to put the player on the 40-man roster, or release him. The Yankees for sure have three players on minor league deals with opt outs: Paul DeJong, Randal Grichuk, and Rafael Montero. There could be others (Seth Brown?), but those three definitely have opt outs given their service time.
As far as I know, Montero still isn’t in camp because of visa issues. I’m not sure what the plan is there. Joel Sherman reports DeJong does not plan to opt out and will go to Triple-A if he’s not on the Opening Day roster. That probably means DeJong’s agent canvassed the league and found no team willing to put him on their MLB roster. Considering the Yankees’ shortstop depth chart …
1. Anthony Volpe (rehabbing from major shoulder surgery)2. José Caballero3. Oswaldo Cabrera (coming off a major ankle injury)4. Ryan McMahon, apparently5. Max Schuemann
… going to Scranton for a few months isn’t the worst play for DeJong. Given his service time, DeJong is owed a $100,000 retention bonus for not opting out. Teams have gotten around that by releasing players and re-signing them to new minor league deals (the cheapness and bad faith acting knows no bounds). If DeJong gets released and re-signed, that’s why.
I think Grichuk’s on the Opening Day roster. The Yankees will need a 40-man spot for him, which won’t be hard to open (Jorbit Vivas’ days are numbered). So, there is your opt out update. DeJong’s staying, Grichuk figures to be officially added to the roster soon, and who knows if Montero will ever get to camp.
Miscellany
Max Fried’s command has been off all spring and it wasn’t great again Thursday: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 4 BB, 2 K, 1 HR on 81 pitches that were sprayed all over the place. Fried’s next start is Opening Day. Gonna need you to lock in soon, Max … Will Warren cruised through his most recent start Tuesday (4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 4 K on 68 pitches) and, afterward, he told Joyce he’s begun calling his own pitches on PitchCom on occasion. “Sometimes I want to make sure that I get a pitch thrown in that count without hesitation, especially with the clock, so I’ll call it,” he said. Warren added that he’ll sometimes call two pitches, and the catcher will relay back which one he should throw. Ah, technology … I mentioned minor league signing Yovanny Cruz last time because he threw extremely hard (as expected) in his Grapefruit League debut, which came pretty late in the spring. Turns out he had a little shoulder issue. In his second game Tuesday, Cruz averaged 100.3 mph with his eight fastballs. Boone floated him as an Opening Day bullpen candidate, but I don’t see it after the late start to the spring … And finally, Yerry De Los Santos was away from the Yankees for about a week to deal with a family issue. He returned Tuesday and got up to 21 pitches in 1.2 innings. It seems like no one wants to win those two open bullpen relief spots. Yerry’s probably as good an option as anyone at this point.
Injury updates and roster moves
Carlos Rodón (elbow) threw two innings and 35-ish pitches in his latest live BP session Thursday (Ben Rice caught him). Unlike Cole, Rodón will not appear in a Grapefruit League game before the end of Spring Training, but pitching in a backfields game can’t be too far away if he’s up to 35 pitches in live BP … Lagrange, Angel Chivilli, Harrison Cohen, Carson Coleman, and Bradley Hanner were this week’s roster cuts. Chivilli had a rough spring when he needed to have a good spring to win a bullpen spot, so to Scranton he goes. I count 48 players still in big league camp.
Up Next
The final weekend of Spring Training. Also the last few days in Florida. The Yankees head to Arizona after Sunday afternoon’s game for those two exhibition games with the Cubs next week. Here’s what’s on the schedule between now and Monday’s post (here’s the full broadcast schedule):
Friday: 6:30pm ET vs. Orioles (Gotham)
Saturday: 1pm ET at Tigers (Tigers TV, ESPN+, Gotham)
Saturday: 6:30pm ET vs. Braves (Spring Breakout) (YES, Gray TV, Gotham)
Sunday: 1pm ET vs. Phillies (YES, NBC Sports Philly, MLBN, Gotham)
Baseball America has the trimmed down Spring Breakout rosters and it includes only one of my top 10 prospects, and nine of my Top 30 Prospects: SS George Lombard Jr. (No. 4), LHP Pico Kohn (No. 12), RHP Jack Cebert (No. 13), LHP Kyle Carr (No. 16), SS Kaeden Kent (No. 18), OF Wilson Rodriguez (No. 26), OF Jace Avina (No. 28), IF Enmanuel Tejeda (No. 29), and OF Brando Mayea (No. 30).
Lagrange threw those four innings behind Cole on Wednesday. RHP Ben Hess and RHP Elmer Rodríguez both pitched over in minor league camp Tuesday. None of those three are lined up for Spring Breakout, hence their exclusion from the roster. Most glaringly, no SS Dax Kilby. I hope he’s not hurt. I was looking forward to seeing him even if only for a few innings. So it goes.
As for the big league team, Luis Gil starts Friday and Cam Schlittler starts Saturday. That lines Schlittler up to start Game 2 of the regular season with an extra day of rest. Gil lines up to pitch the off-day between Opening Day and Game 2 (on extra rest), so he’s kinda in limbo. The Yankees could also option Gil and roll with a four-man rotation the first week or two. We’ll get word on the plan with Gil soon enough.
3. Rapid fire thoughts. Cam Schlittler told Greg Joyce there were “some conversations” in the offseason about joining Team USA for the World Baseball Classic, but he decided against it, citing his career high workload last season. “Just wasn’t an option this year with the workload I threw last year. Hopefully I get another opportunity to do that in a couple years,” he said. Unless Schlittler is secretly a great hitter, I’m not sure he would’ve changed the outcome … Aaron Boone said he expects the Yankees to start the season with three catchers during an in-game YES interview the other day. I assume he didn’t mean Ali Sánchez is suddenly in the mix, so the three are J.C. Escarra, Ben Rice, and Austin Wells despite the fact Rice has not caught a single inning in an actual game this spring. The Twins are looking to move Alex Jackson, who was in camp with the Yankees last year and spent half the season in Scranton. I expect the Yankees to roll with Escarra as the backup, but if they make a minor trade/waiver claim to add Jackson as a righty hitting backup, it wouldn’t shock me. I’m not saying it will happen. Just that the odds it does happen are higher than 0% … And finally, happy trails to New York broadcasting legend Howie Rose. He announced he’s retiring after the season. Rose is best known as the longtime voice of the Mets, but I’ll always remember him for “Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! Stephane Matteau!!!”
Mailbag Questions of the Week
Patrick asks: Houston wants to trade Isaac Paredes to clear up their roster logjam. Boston seemingly remains interested. Yanks need a high end reliever. Do you think there is a framework for a deal that sends Paredes to the Red Sox, Grisham to the Astros and Garrett Whitlock to the Yankees? Grisham and Whitlock are Free Agents next year. Paredes has a few years of control so Boston may need to include a prospect to Houston to even things out. I obviously like from the Yanks side as it creates playing time for Dominguez and the return of Whitlock greatly strengthens the bullpen. Thoughts?
That’s an interesting scenario, though Patrick has Whitlock’s contract situation wrong. The Red Sox signed him to a cheap extension a few years ago and he’s got team options for 2027 and 2028, so he won’t be a free agent after the season (unless they decline the options, which will mean something went wrong in 2026). This trade boils down to:
Astros get: 1 year of Grisham
Red Sox get: 2 years of Paredes
Yankees get: 1 year of Whitlock with club options for 2 more
The roster fits make perfect sense. Houston has too many infielders and needs a lefty hitting outfielder. Boston’s infield is looking iffy and they have some young arms they could toss in the bullpen to replace Whitlock (plus Paredes would mash in Fenway Park as an extreme pull righty). The Yankees could spare a lefty hitting outfielder and need high leverage bullpen help.
The Astros are getting the short end here though and I say that as a Grisham fan. It’s two years of cheap-ish years of Paredes for one expensive year of Grisham, and I don’t see Houston taking on the additional money (or being okay with a non-MLB-ready prospect to even things out). They’re not far under the $244M luxury tax threshold and seem determined to stay under. The Yankees could kick in money to facilitate the trade and yeah, that would be worth it.
(Players who take the qualifying offer get full no-trade protection until June 15th, so Grisham would have to okay the trade. He might be open to it. He’s a Fort Worth guy and would be closer to home.)
I don’t think the Red Sox would subtract Whitlock. Besides, they’re overstuffed with lefty hitting outfielders themselves. Surely it would be easier for the Astros and Red Sox to make a Paredes for lefty outfielder trade without looping in a third team. I like the idea and the roster fits align well. As it so often does these days, the salary and team control stuff would derail this trade.
Mark asks: This question may be answered by the time the next mailbag comes around. Does Weathers have options left? His last two outings have been not good. Any chance they let him work on it in AAA, and give Lagrange a chance at the 5th starter spot? This would be very un-Yankees, do you see any possibility of that happening?
Dan asks: On a scale of 1-10, how concerned are you with Luis Gil based on how he's looked in Spring Training? I keep trying to remind myself that ST stats are meaningless, and that guys are tinkering, but he's honestly got me worried going into the season. Between the command issues, last year's injury, and how he's looked so far, I'm just not feeling great about him being in the rotation. I guess we'll see how things work out this year. But I'm starting to wonder if a move to the pen is a better option for Gil once Rodon returns (or if Elmer Rodriguez can be plugged into the rotation), but time will tell.
Going to lump these two together because they’re in the same vein. Spring training surface stats (ERA, AVG, etc.) are almost always meaningless. Don’t sweat those. The under-the-hood stuff is much more meaningful in March and even that is hit-or-miss because the competition varies so much (from at-bat to at-bat, let alone game to game), and you never know what a guy is working on.
Gil and Ryan Weathers have both had poor springs, statistically, but I’m more worried about Gil than I am Weathers. Weathers is humming alone with top flight stuff. He was 97-99 mph like it’s a walk in the park Thursday. The stuff is popping and is up a notch from the last few years, at least in terms of velocity and movement. He’s also changed his mix (sinkers to lefties). There are plenty of reasons to believe.
In Gil’s case, he’s healthy and his velocity is still down, and, not coincidentally, his whiff and chase rates have dried up. It’s a continuation of last season. The “walk a lot of guys” profile works when you throw hard, miss bats, get chase, and induce routine fly balls (see: Cease, Dylan). Gil’s not throwing hard now (relatively speaking) and the outs are much harder to come by.
Both Gil and Weathers have an option remaining and if the Yankees have to demote one or both, they will, but it won’t be because they had poor springs and Carlos Lagrange lit it up. One of my inside baseball pals says the only part of Spring Training that isn’t a lie is the injuries. Don’t get too high or too low on results this time of the year, because you’ll drive yourself nuts.
(It feels like every pitcher the Yankees have used consistently this spring has looked crappy except Lagrange, Cam Schlittler, and Will Warren.)
David asks: Does the hole in the Braves lineup caused by the Profar suspension create an opportunity for a Jasson trade?
It could, sure. I’ve been waiting for the Red Sox to pawn Masataka Yoshida off on Atlanta, though Yoshida is signed through next year, and I assume the Braves don’t want to do that. The Braves could slot Jasson Domínguez in at DH (their projected DH is Dom Smith right now) and use him in the outfield occasionally. What happens when Jurickson Profar returns next year? Figure it out next year.
Domínguez makes sense for the Braves post-Profar. I’m just not sure what they could send back to the Yankees. Their farm system is thin, and while there is always talent to be had, it’s harder to find in a thin system. Trading Domínguez for a reliever (Dylan Lee?) could work, but boy, I’d hate to trade him for a bullpen arm, even a good one. The biggest issue is figuring out what the Yankees would get in the deal. It’s gotta be something pretty good. There’s no reason to trade Jasson otherwise.
Steve asks: If Grisham regresses and Dominguez is in AAA, who is the Yankees backup leadoff hitter? Ben Rice?
That’s a good question and one that figures to answer itself during the season. The Yankees won’t pull the plug on Trent Grisham as the leadoff hitter after, like, two series. It wasn’t until late April that he took over the leadoff spot last season and that was after going into the year without a clear cut leadoff guy (remember Leadoff Hitter Austin Wells?). They’ll give Grisham some runway, and by time it becomes clear the need to make a change, someone else will likely have emerged as the new leadoff guy. Paul Goldschmidt was second in leadoff starts last season and I bet he’s up there against righties again. Rice was third in leadoff starts. I’d put Rice up there, at least against righties, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. would be a good option too. If the Yankees get deep into April and it’s clear they need a new No. 1 hitter, chances are that guy will have made himself obvious by then.
Alex asks: Interesting hypothetical for you: Ronald Acuña Jr. is officially going into his 8th season in the bigs. Had he not signed that extension so young, what do you think his market would’ve ended up as? And do you think the Yankees would’ve been involved instead of the Soto/Bellinger fiasco we ended up with?
There’s a lot of IFs here, but IF the Braves hadn’t manipulated Acuña’s service time, and IF Acuña hadn’t signed his extension, he would have become a free agent going into his age 26 season and coming off his NL MVP win. The year he hit .337/.417/.518 (161 wRC+) with 41 homers, 73 steals, and +9.2 WAR. The 2021 ACL tear could’ve cost him some, but Acuña might’ve been the best free agent ever. It would have been a Juan Doto deal.
Without the extension, Acuña would’ve become a free agent after 2024, a season that ended for him on May 26th because he tore his other ACL. Given his age and trajectory, I think Acuña’s camp would have pursued a one-year contract with a player option or two that offseason. That would’ve given him some security, a chance to get healthy, and then a chance to test free agency again going into his age 27 season.
For the Yankees, it would have been healthy Soto or Acuña coming off an ACL tear that offseason. Soto definitely would’ve been the priority because he’d just helped them get to the World Series. The Yankees lost that bidding war though, and Alex Bregman’s contract that offseason suggests Acuña’s short-term contract still would’ve been in the $40M a year range. Do the Yankees do there? I dunno.
That said, the Yankees traded for Cody Bellinger, who had a similar contract structure. They agreed to pay him $25M in 2025 with a $22.5M player option for 2026 (after factoring in the money the Cubs paid). Acuña wouldn’t have been that much more expensive, right? He was coming off the injury though, and he didn’t actually get back on the field until May 23rd. You knew going in he’d miss time.
My guess is the Dodgers would’ve been all over Acuña that offseason and let Teoscar Hernández walk to make the roster work. They’re all about the short-term/high-dollar deals (they offered one to Bryce Harper back in the day). I think the Dodgers get him. So, yes, I think the Yankees would’ve pursued Acuña. Ultimately, I think they miss out and the hypothetical 2025 Yankees look a lot like the real 2025 Yankees.
Mike asks: You mentioned the Yankees pay 48% of ticket revenue into revenue sharing. How does that all work? Please dumb it down.
It is complex, yes. The revenue sharing section in the CBA is 18 pages of legalese. The short version is every team puts 48% of its local revenue in a pot, then takes out an equal 1/30th share. Big market teams like the Yankees put in more than they take out. Small market teams like the Rays take out more than they put in. Local revenue is anything generated at the stadium (tickets, concessions, merchandise, etc.), local television money, stuff like that. Revenue sharing is sorta like doing your taxes though because teams can deduct things from their local revenue before the 48% is calculated, including stadium expenses. When Hal Steinbrenner bellyaches about the Yankee Stadium bond payments, he ignores that those same payments also cut them a break on revenue sharing. The revenue sharing system is tweaked every CBA. I don’t think we’ll get a salary cap next year, but I’m sure revenue sharing will be changed in a way that costs the Yankees more as MLB looks to close the revenue gap.
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