Yahoo pitching paid baseball content — and starting with Mets

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Yahoo Sports is creating a potential challenger to the The Athletic’s subscription model, The Post has learned.

While Yahoo will cover teams, its approach will be different than The Athletic, which has tried to digitally recreate the sports page.

Yahoo’s business will act a bit more like a membership club. It will cover teams, while attempting to form an insider community, with what it says will be insider experiences for fans.

The burgeoning business will begin in Flushing with the Mets. The name of the product will be the Queens Baseball Club.

It will include three writers covering the team, while planning to give members a behind-the-scenes experience, such as access to…