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If no Yankees position player suffers an injury in Texas this week, baseball’s best squad would become the first team in major league history (confirmed via weeks of imaginary research) to actually face the conundrum of employing too many good players. The Yankees’ fill-in first baseman slammed two homers at spacious Kauffman Stadium and drove home four runs to lead a power-charged, 10-1 rout of the terrible Royals. With a 30-13 record, technical occupancy of the American League East penthouse, a 21-4 record in their last 25 games, and eight straight series wins, their best such run since the record-setting 1998 season, the Yankees are cruising on the remarkable depth of their roster. With Clint Frazier optioned back to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre late Sunday, presumably to make room for another pitcher, Austin becomes the most obvious guy to make room for Bird.
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