Had the Yankees re-signed Juan Soto rather than used their biggest chunk of offseason money on Max Fried, I think they’d be in worse shape right now.

Once again, Max Fried played stopper for the New York Yankees. Fried held the Tampa Bay Rays to one hit (a single) in seven shutout innings Friday night to get the Yankees back into the win column (NY 3,

Similar to two weekends ago in Tampa, the Rays never had a chance again with Fried allowing one hit over seven innings in a 3-0 Yankees victory. All of the Yankees’ runs came on a fifth-inning homer by Paul Goldschmidt, who popped a two-out blast into the second row of the right-field seats off lefty reliever Mason Montgomery.