Yankees reach US$153m deal with Ellsbury
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Jacoby Ellsbury, fresh off winning the World Series with Boston, reached agreement with the rival New York Yankees on a seven-year contract worth about US$153 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Tuesday.
The Ellsbury move headlined a day when the Major League Baseball player market heated up, with Jarrod Saltalamacchia also leaving the Red Sox to join the Miami Marlins.
Boston already has lined up a catching replacement in A.J. Pierzynski, who comes over from Texas.
Add in a pair of trades by Oakland, a three-team deal involving Arizona, Cincinnati and Tampa Bay, plus two other swaps, and baseball’s business season has started to boil a week before the winter meetings.
Ellsbury was to take a physical in New York that he must pass before the deal can be finalized, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized.
Earlier on Tuesday, New York finalized an US$85 million, five-year contract with All-Star catcher Brian McCann.
There is a long history of stars moving from Beantown to the Big Apple. Babe Ruth was the most famous, and Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs and Johnny Damon followed.
Ellsbury, who turned 30 in September, led the majors with 52 stolen bases despite being hobbled late in the season by a broken right foot. The leadoff man batted .298 with nine homers and 53 RBIs, and the short right-field porch at Yankee Stadium should boost his power numbers.
Pierzynski agreed to a one-year contract with the Red Sox, a person with knowledge of those negotiations said, also on condition of anonymity because the agreement wasn’t final.
Pierzynski and David Ross, Boston’s backup catcher, both will be 37 next season. With prospects Christian Vazquez and Blake Swihart making their way up the system, the Red Sox were reluctant to give a multiyear deal to Saltalamacchia.
Saltalamacchia agreed to a US$21 million, three-year deal with the Marlins, two sources said.
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