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Yankee bond: How a Cubs coach helped mold prospect Hayden Wesneski before trade

M ILWAUKEE — During the lost 2020 minor-league season, then-Yankees pitching prospect Hayden Wesneski would talk on the phone with Daniel Moskos, then a pitching coach in their farm system, for so long that Moskos’ wife started giving him grief about it.

Cameron Moskos, a physician’s assistant, would get home from work to find Daniel on the phone and feign exasperation: ‘‘Oh, my goodness. Is that Wesneski again?’’

Wesneski laughed when he was reminded of those calls.

‘‘There were a few times his whole family was in the car when I called him,’’ Wesneski recounted in a phone interview Thursday.