The Yankees and Jacoby Ellsbury quietly settled their contract dispute a minimum of a 12 months in the past to keep away from an airing of grievances, The Submit has discovered.
After the Yankees filed a grievance in 2019 in an try and recoup a number of the cash within the remaining leg of his seven-year, $153 million contract, the 2 sides have since reached a financial settlement to keep away from a listening to.
The Yankees filed the grievance after the 2019 season, upon releasing Ellsbury with one 12 months left on his contract. They claimed the outfielder used an outdoor facility, with out their permission, to rehab accidents that stored him off the sphere for 2018 and 2019. By rule, gamers are supposed to hunt and obtain permission earlier than utilizing medical doctors exterior of the group. Ellsbury was set to make $21 million in 2020, with a further $5 million buyout on a $21 million choice in 2021.
Whereas the precise quantity of the settlement just isn't publicly identified, because of confidentiality agreements, it was a determine low sufficient to maintain the Yankees underneath the second luxurious tax threshold in 2020. Going over that threshold would have pushed them again 10 spots within the 2021 draft.
In the course of the 2020 season — shortened to 60 video games by the pandemic — the second luxurious tax threshold was about $80 million and the Yankees have been slightly below it with Ellsbury’s diminished wage.
A league supply described the monetary settlement as a “truthful compromise.”
Ellsbury performed 520 video games for the Yankees from 2014-2017, however none after pinch-running in Sport 4 of the 2017 ALCS. He missed all of 2018. He was initially sidelined by an indirect pressure earlier than he was handled for a lower-back challenge. He then underwent surgical procedure to restore a torn labrum in his left hip in August, which stored him out for all of 2019 as properly.
Jose Trevino began a second straight sport behind the plate Friday evening for the primary time this season, a 4-1 win over Cleveland in The Bronx.
Supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned Trevino and Kyle Higashioka have been going to separate the video games Friday and Saturday anyway, so he opted to have Higashioka begin Saturday towards lefty Kirk McCarty.
“I view it as form of having a tandem proper now,” Boone mentioned.
Whereas each Yankees catchers are defense-first backstops, Trevino has gotten off to a greater begin offensively, offering an influence within the 4 video games he had began earlier than Friday. He was 0-for-3 towards the Guardians on Friday.
“Jose’s been nice,” Boone mentioned. “I feel we have been all excited to get him, however he’s been nice in each means for us. Been nice in our room, clearly actually good behind the plate, he’s had a variety of good at-bats, run the bases properly. He’s doing all the pieces we may’ve requested, incomes these alternatives.”
Catcher Ben Rortvedt, who was sidelined by an indirect pressure throughout spring coaching that partially necessitated the commerce for Trevino, continues to be going by the rehab course of.
“He’s doing fairly properly, however not able to play in any video games but,” Boone mentioned. “Nonetheless that tee and toss, beginning the [batting practice] section, doing all his defensive stuff. He’s doing properly and I feel over the damage now.”
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