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TAMPA, Fla. -- José Caballero grinned and waved his cap from the top step of the George M. Steinbrenner Field visitors’ dugout this week, back at the Rays’ temporary home for the first time as an opponent.

Traded to the Yankees on July 31 , Caballero’s former club honored the speedy infielder/outfielder by showing a brief scoreboard video, drawing applause from both sides of the ballpark.

Then he thanked his old mates the loudest way possible: by hitting two of the Yankees’ nine homers in a 13-3 rout . Afterward, he joked that Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton had already rubbed off on him.

"That’s why [we] are the Bronx

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