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The New York Yankees, MLB, and MLB advanced media have appealed to the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit after federal judge Jed Rakoff ordered the Yankees and MLB to unseal and release a 2017 letter from Rob Manfred that could connect the Yankees to sign stealing, according to Evan Drellich of The Athletic.
Rakoff ordered on Friday that the Yankees and MLB were to unseal and release the letter no later than noontime today. Rakoff made the decision based off a now dismissed lawsuit that some users of DraftKings fantasy sports made against the MLB, Houston Astros, and Boston Red Sox for their involvement in the sign stealing scandal this winter. The Yankees fought the order, saying that the suit was dismissed, so there were no legal grounds to order it's release. They also said that releasing it would cause "significant reputational injury."
Rakoff said in his order that "Plaintiffs alleged that the 2017 press release falsely suggested that the investigation found that the Yankees had only engaged in a minor technical infraction, whereas, according to plaintiffs, the investigation had in fact found that the Yankees engaged in a more serious, sign-stealing scheme."
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