The New York Yankees made it official yesterday when they sent Ben Heller to assignment to make room for the new Yankees reliever Darren O’Day on the 40 man roster. When the Yankees finally found out that they could re-sign DJ LeMahieul for $15 million annually, that result gave them the money to spend. The Yankees went out and signed Corey Kluber, a two-time Cy Young award winner, and traded four prospects to the Pittsburgh Pirates for starter Jameson Taillon.
The Yankees still had positions to fill in the bullpen. The Yankees managed to pull off a surprising trade with the Boston Red Sox by sending declining Adam Ottavino to the sox, which will absorb nearly all of his $9 million owed by the Yankees in the last year of his contract.