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By Andy McCullough, Will Sammon and Sahadev Sharma
The email from the New York Yankees arrived just past 6 p.m. a little more than a week before the first game of the 2025 MLB season. The subject line was short but sinister, a harbinger of bad tidings for both the team and the sport writ large at the start of the year.
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Update on RHP Gerrit Cole
The news contained in the message was not a surprise. Cole — the 2023 American League Cy Young
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