The Yankees are dealing with ramifications of losing Gerrit Cole for the season. (3:54) We react to their Opening Day conundrum and luxury tax avoidance.

(10:45) FT Senior Insider Ken Rosenthal details what he has learned about the gap between Vladdy Jr. and the Blue Jays. Ken also covers the comments from Brian Cashman about those darn luxury tax hardships and Ken tells us about his convo with Mo Vaughn, which included HGH admission.

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(24:14) The Dodgers will option new addition Hyeseong Kim to start the season. 

(26:48) Justin Verlander is thriving this spring. Bounceback year coming?

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(32:09) Props to this Spring Training tour!

(36:12) Lance McCullers Jr. is scheduled to make his long-awaited return to the bump next week.

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