More Yankees : In actual baseball news, manager Aaron Boone — perhaps helped by the support of Aaron Judge — has signed an extension through 2027. And Kuty has the story from the early workouts, where Yankees players are still angry about losing the World Series last year.

The big news from the New York Yankees' spring training as the team opened camp this week was the change in the organization's long-standing facial hair policy. For the past 49 years, beards were not allowed among Yankees players.

New closer Devin Williams and several former Yankees stars helped nudge owner Hal Steinbrenner into changing the franchise's decades-old policy on facial hair.