The Yankees drafted Core Jackson out of Utah in the fifth round last month, knowing that the shortstop drew a swastika on the door of a Jewish student’s dorm room in 2021.

Jackson was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Nebraska at the time of the incident. He told The Athletic in a story published Wednesday morning that he was “blackout drunk” and “had no recollection of the incident or why he did it.”

The Yankees didn’t make the decision to draft Jackson lightly.

According to The Athletic, Jackson was picked after the most thorough deep dive into a player in Yankees amateur scouting director Damon Oppenheimer’s career. It also came after conversations with Jewish members of the Yankees’ organization — like team president Randy Levine — with direct clearance from owner Hal

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