NEW YORK — After years of legal wrangling, the infamous Yankee Letter from Rob Manfred to Brian Cashman is now public, with a few redactions. Much of the text of the letter was published by SNY on Tuesday, after the Yankees lost a court ruling aiming to keep it sealed. It was set to be released later this week.
Most of the information in the letter has been widely reported since Manfred wrote it in 2017: The Yankees illegally used a phone to transmit information about signs from the replay room to the dugout in 2015 and 2016. (The replay phone is only supposed to be used to discuss challenging calls.)
In a lengthy statement, the Yankees took pains to say they were never punished for anything but the phone violation, and that sign stealing enforcement only really started in September 2017.
