The Yankees signed Fried to an eight-year, $218 million deal as their first move after losing free-agent slugger Juan Soto to the New York Mets. The 30-year-old is coming off a successful eight-year stretch with the Braves in which he went 73-36 with a 3.07 ERA, including two top-five finishes in the NL Cy Young race.

The New York Yankees are set to enter spring training with some question marks at the first base position. After buying out Anthony Rizzo's contract, making him a free agent, the Yankees turned around and signed former MVP Paul Goldschmidt to a one-year deal.

The New York Yankees’ rotation is one of the most underrated in baseball. It has five legitimately above-average starters in Gerrit Cole, Max Fried, Carlos Rodon, Luis Gil and Clarke Schmidt. Then, they have other solid arms such as Marcus Stroman,

The New York Yankees have unveiled their Spring Training non-roster invites, and among those players are some of the organization’s