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Yankees Made an Unplanned Pivot to Max Fried After Juan Soto Signs With Mets

After Soto’s $500M Mets deal, Yankees pivoted fast, signing Fried for eight years, $218M, a record for left-handed pitchers. “I don’t want to say he was Plan B. That’s my guy,” Gerrit Cole said. Fried cited the Yankees’ yearly World Series expectation and fit with their pitching philosophy as decisive factors. Fried’s other two options were the Boston and Toronto.