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This is the kind of assignment that used to fall on the right shoulder of David Cone, or the left one of Andy Pettitte, back in the dynasty days. CC Sabathia merrily assumed the burden for a while, including the last time the Yankees went the distance. If things had gone according to plan this year, it would be Gerrit Cole’s responsibility.

But Cole is still rehabbing his elbow.

So the ball will be in Max Fried’s hand Sunday afternoon at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. If Aaron Boone is a student of history, maybe he’ll do what managers like Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel used to do, and he

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