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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — The winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn., kicked off with Lou Piniella being screwed and concluded with Juan Soto finally being traded. In between, Shohei Ohtani held everyone hostage and now comes the first-ever head-to-head faceoff between the New York behemoths Yankees and Mets for a premier free agent, in this case Yoshinobu Yamamoto. As all the baseball folks began gathering at the Opryland Hotel last Sunday, the Hall of Fame announced that the 16-member Contemporary Era Committee had elected former Tigers and Pirates manager Jim Leyland to Cooperstown and that was a good thing …