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A-Rod surrenders! Slugger drops suits against MLB, union and Selig

A-Rod has raised the white flag.

Yankees beleaguered superstar Alex Rodriguez on Friday dismissed his lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, thereby concluding his longshot battle to overturn a full-season suspension for his involvement with Biogenesis.

Rodriguez’s attorney Joseph Tacopina also told The Post that A-Rod will not attend Yankees spring training, as he had been threatening to do, thanks to the murky rules concerning that in baseball’s Basic Agreement. Team A-Rod also dropped a second lawsuit against MLB and commissioner Bud Selig that accused MLB of conducting a “witch hunt” to oust Rodriguez from baseball and asked for financial damages.

Friday served as the deadline for Team A-Rod to respond to recent filings by MLB and the Players Association to have the case thrown out of Federal court. Prior to Rodriguez’s official surrender, Team A-Rod had been sending out signals to its adversaries that it was contemplating this action.

The move serves as a clear peace offering to baseball, the union and the Yankees, although Rodriguez for sure has much ground to cover on that front. The 38-year-old has three years and $61 million remaining in his 10-year, $275 million contract with the Yankees, and he has expressed a desire to resume his career next season.

“We have been informed that Alex Rodriguez has reached the prudent decision to end all of the litigation related to the Biogenesis matter,” MLB said in a statement. “We believe that Mr. Rodriguez’s actions show his desire to return the focus to the play of our great game on the field and to all of the positive attributes and actions of his fellow Major League Players. We share that desire.”

The Players Association said in a statement: “Alex Rodriguez has done the right thing by withdrawing his lawsuit. His decision to move forward is in everyone’s best interest.”

Selig originally suspended Rodriguez for 211 games on Aug. 5, citing possession and usage of multiple illegal performance-enhancing drugs and obstruction of MLB’s investigation. A bruising arbitration hearing ensued, during which Rodriguez and his attorneys and MLB representatives exchanged allegations and insults, and it essentially concluded Nov. 20 when Rodriguez — angered Selig wouldn’t be forced to face questions from his attorneys — stormed out of the hearing without testifying on his own behalf. Independent arbitrator Fredric Horowitz reduced Rodriguez’s sentence to 162 games, plus the 2014 postseason, in a decision announced on Jan. 11.

When Horowitz’s ruling came down, Rodriguez said in a statement: “I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in any manner, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court.”

On Jan. 13, Team A-Rod filed suit against MLB and the Players Association, alleging the union didn’t properly represent him, and asked the suspension be vacated.

All along, Rodriguez’s tactics confounded legal experts. Federal courts overwhelmingly support binding arbitration cases, and Rodriguez wasn’t even professing his innocence in the suit. Had the suit actually seen the light of day, Rodriguez would have been compelled to testify to his innocence under oath, and he also risked the unsealing of his prior grand jury testimony concerning his undisclosed activities with convicted Canadian doctor Anthony Galea.

After Friday’s double dismissal, Rodriguez still has one lawsuit remaining. On Oct. 4, he filed a medical malpractice suit against Yankees team physician Christopher Ahmad and New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical

Additional reporting by Rich Calder