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FILE -New York Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino delivers during the first inning of a baseball … [+] game against the Houston Astros, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in Houston. Free-agent pitcher Luis Severino and the New York Mets are finalizing a $13 million, one-year contract, according to a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday night, Nov. 29, 2023, because the team had not announced the deal.(AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox, File) Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. In 2015, the Yankees were kind of an in between phase, one year after Derek Jeter retired and still a year from starting some semblance of a youth movement that ultimately panned out in 2017 and into 2018 before petering out for various reasons. As the Yankees straddled the line of being decent enough to be in the wild-card conversation but not quite being a powerhouse, they featured a veteran core with an aging Alex Rodriguez (back from a one-year PED suspension) and Mark Teixeira on year seven of an eight-year contract signed during the 2008-2009 spending spree that helped result in the Yankees’ most recent World Series title and appearance. It is the situation Luis Severino found himself in as a top prospect when the Yankees called him up a week after the trade deadline. The Yankees did not part with Severino or other top prospects at the time in Aaron Judge and Greg Bird because of the belief in a better future than instant gratification of the possibility of making a World Series run. And when Severino was thrust into a postseason chase on a veteran team who just lost Michael Pineda to a forearm injury. There was plenty of good reasons to insert Severino into a playoff race…

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