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Since the moment that the Yankees popped corks to celebrate their first goal of securing the American League East title, manager Aaron Boone has used the remaining games on the schedule as something of a laboratory, experimenting with various permutations of how the club might want to deploy the roster in October.
That was why Masahiro Tanaka emerged from the bullpen for the first time in his big league career in the regular-season finale Sunday, when the final game at Globe Life Park was logged in the books as a 6-1 Rangers victory.