Yankees non-tender lefty Lindgren at deadline

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NEW YORK — The Yankees resolved two of their potential non-tender situations this week with the outright releases of right-hander Nathan Eovaldi and infielder/outfielder Dustin Ackley, and they settled their business in advance of Friday’s 8 p.m. ET deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players by declining to offer a deal to left-hander Jacob Lindgren, who appeared in seven games with New York as a reliever in 2015.

Eovaldi and Ackley had been widely floated as non-tender candidates due to their respective injuries, as Eovaldi will miss the entire 2017 season following his second Tommy John procedure and Ackley was limited to just 28 games this past season before undergoing right shoulder surgery.

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That left the Yanks with seven arbitration-eligible players heading into Friday’s …

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