TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees have not won a playoff game since 2012, and they spent the winter addressing this shortcoming in a very un-Boss-like manner, becoming the only team in baseball not to sign at least one free agent.

But on the business side, the Yankees are still adept at throwing their considerable weight around.

They did so last week when they announced they would no longer accept print-at-home tickets, instituting mobile ticketing along with standard hard-copy tickets — moves that could make it more cumbersome for buyers and sellers on the resale market who do not go through the Yankees’ ticket exchange.

Although the Yankees said the moves were to combat fraud, industry analysts and competitors saw the latest broadside against StubHub, which the Yankees have frequently accused of undercutting the value of their tickets, as another attempt by a professional sports franchise to seize control of the resale market.

After Lonn Trost, the Yankees’ chief operating officer, was lambasted as elitist for suggesting in a Thursday radio interview that some fans do not belong in premium seats, the team president, Randy Levine, in an interview Saturday, said StubHub had stoked the controversy, accusing it of putting out a narrative “that’s completely fraudulent and completely false.”