DALLAS — The Yankees’ first strike within the post-Juan Soto period arrived Tuesday.
If they can not outslug opponents, perhaps they’ll outduel them.
A rotation that already included ace Gerrit Cole added a second potential No. 1 in Max Fried, who agreed to an eight-year, $218 million contract, The Put up confirmed.
The pact is pending a bodily.
Fried’s first eight seasons got here with the Braves, with whom he twice completed within the prime 5 in NL Cy Younger voting.
Final season the lefty pitched to a 3.25 ERA in 29 begins.
With Cole, Fried, Carlos Rodon, Luis Gil, Nestor Cortes, Clarke Schmidt and Marcus Stroman, the Yankees have seven OK-to-excellent beginning pitcher choices, which provides them a power maybe to deal from.
– Further reporting by Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman
