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The trade is here, the trade is live.
The deal is, at its core, as expected. It’s centered around LHP Justus Sheffield, a 22-year-old LHP with great potential who will open the season in the starting rotation and is under team control through 2024. Jerry Dipoto, as you might imagine, is enthused:
Since I just wrote 2000 words on the Yankees system, many of which described Sheffield, I won’t rehash too much.