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Francisco Lindor isn’t Yankees’ only option to fill lefty-hitting hole

Brett Gardner is a free agent. So is Didi Gregorius, who did not get a qualifying offer from the Yankees. Aaron Hicks needed Tommy John surgery and will miss at least a few months next season.

That trio took 60 percent of the Yankees’ lefty plate appearances in 2019.

Now, Gardner is likely to stay a lifelong Yankee. Gregorius is more likely gone. And the benefactor of the switch-hitting Hicks missing time should be lefty Mike Tauchman. But as of this weekend, the only lefties or switch-hitters on the Yankees’ 40-man roster are Hicks, Jacoby Ellsbury — we will wait for you to stop laughing — Greg Bird (who could be non-tendered), Mike Ford and Tyler Wade.