TAMPA — Brian Cashman stood in the Yankees dugout at Steinbrenner Field on Thursday and warned not to read too much into what we had seen through the first three-plus weeks of camp. 

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“Obviously the last three weeks, you start to hone in on what’s real and start factoring everything into those decisions,” Cashman said. 

The GM was speaking exactly three weeks from Opening Day in The Bronx, so consider the hour glass tipped upright. 

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