The ghost runner gained sentience in 2020 as a pandemic measure to shorten games. It has achieved its goal, and those marathon slogs (or thrillers, depending your viewpoint) are now archaic.
It is possible that the Yankees enter camp (and the season) with Jazz Chisholm Jr. as their second baseman and allow DJ LeMahieu, Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza to battle it out for third base.