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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — There will be no reunion in the Bronx for Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees in 2022. The former Yankee right-hander had hinted he was looking to come back to MLB — preferably the Bronx — after playing a season back at home. He had even noted the day he signed that his contract he had included an opt-out after the 2021 season. On Friday, however, Tohoku Rakuten announced that Tanaka had decided to play out the second year of the contract and will return to the Golden Eagles in 2022. It had been an unlikely possibility that Tanaka would return to the Yankees. After all, they let him wal…