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Brett Gardner explains Yankees loyalty: Big talent, warnings from ex-teammates

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TAMPA — When Luis Severino throws the first pitch on March 28 against the Orioles in The Bronx, it will start the 10th anniversary season of the last Yankees World Series title.

Only Brett Gardner and CC Sabathia remain from the club that beat the Phillies in six games for the Yankees’ 27th World Series crown and 10 seasons after the last one in 2000.

To Gardner, the decade has passed very quickly, but not without pain that won’t subside.

“It has flown by. It’s been a disappointing 10 years,” Gardner said before the Yankees worked out Thursday at George M.