The Yankees filed a motion for the Second Circuit Appeals Court to reverse its ruling to have the letter unsealed.
TAMPA — The Yankees aren’t going down without a fight in their effort to keep a letter from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to general manager Brian Cashman that allegedly provides details into a sign-stealing scheme.
In the Yankees’ filing — which the team released to the press in full — they argued the organization is “not a party to this case” and MLB mistakenly produced the letter in court. The letter is said to deal with a pair of sign-stealing-related transgressions committed by the Yankees, including improperly using a dugout phone in a season before 2017, as well as referencing the fact some Yankees players stationed themselves in the team’s replay room in an attempt to steal opponents’ signs, then relayed that information to runners on second base so they could try to tell the hitter what was coming.