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• Clarke Schmidt primed to rejoin Yankees after final rehab start April 10, 2025
  DETROIT — Help is on the way for the Yankees rotation, one arm much sooner than the other. 
• Yankees’ Devin Williams feels he’s ‘getting closer’ after latest debacle versus Tigers April 9, 2025
  The Yankees closer has not had the smoothest of landings with his new team four outings into the season, including Wednesday.
• Yankees survive late drama as Max Fried’s gem, Ben Rice’s homer help avoid Tigers sweep April 9, 2025
  For seven innings Wednesday afternoon, Max Fried put on a masterclass, showing why the Yankees signed him to an eight-year, $218 million contract.
• Yankees’ Cody Bellinger going on wing hiatus after food poisoning from room service: ‘I was down bad’ April 9, 2025
  Bellinger was just trying to enjoy watching the NCAA men’s basketball title game Monday night in his hotel room when he ordered the wings via room service. 
• Max Fried-Jack Flaherty face-off will have their high school watching ‘a little bit more intensely’ April 9, 2025
  Max Fried and Jack Flaherty are set to square off in Wednesday’s series finale between the Yankees and Tigers at Comerica Park, and while they have combined to pitch in over 300 big league games, this will be the first time the former high school teammates have started the same game. 
• MLB world mourns Octavio Dotel, Tony Blanco after deaths in nightclub tragedy: ‘Heartbroken’ April 9, 2025
  Dotel and Blanco were among the at least 66 people killed when the roof of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo caved in while merengue singer Rubby Pérez was in the middle of a performance.
• Mets hold moment of silence for Octavio Dotel after reliever died in nightclub tragedy April 8, 2025
  The Mets and their fans mourned the death of Octavio Dotel, the franchise's former pitcher. 
• Carlos Carrasco gives up three quick homers as Yankees get carved up by Tigers’ Tarik Skubal in shutout loss April 8, 2025
  And that’s the way Cookie crumbled.
• Octavio Dotel, longtime MLB pitcher, dead at 51 after Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse April 8, 2025
  He pitched for both the Mets and Yankees during his 15-year career.
• Cody Bellinger out of Yankees lineup with food poisoning after eating bad wings April 8, 2025
  It was the latest development in a rough week for the outfielder.