MINNEAPOLIS – With the Yankees’ AL East title hopes a long shot at best – they came into Wednesday five games behind the Blue Jays with 11 games to go – and increasingly looking as if they’ll be the top wild-card team, the organization has a difficult decision when it comes to who starts the third game of that best-of-three opening round.

Max Fried and Carlos Rodon , barring the unforeseen, are near locks for Game 1 and 2, respectively, which leaves a potential win-or-go-home Game 3 in the hands of one of three rookies – Will Warren, Luis Gil and Cam Schlittler.

Though, in reality, because of the up-and-down nature of Warren’s season, which has included too many big innings, it’s really between the hard-throwing Cam Schlittler and just-as-hard-throwing Luis Gil (the latter started Wedne

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