The New York Yankees had managed to avoid going to arbitration hearings with all their eligible players with one notable exception: right-handed reliever Mark Leiter Jr. Leiter Jr. was acquired from the Chicago Cubs ahead of last year’s trade deadline and had uneven results in his first few months in the Bronx.

The Yankees defeated reliever Mark Leiter Jr. in an arbitration hearing, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports.  Leiter