Friday’s commerce between the New York Yankees and the Milwaukee Brewers didn’t precisely come at an excellent time for Nestor Cortes.
The Yankees despatched the veteran lefty Cortes to the Brewers as a part of a bundle for an All-Star reliever. The transfer ends Cortes’ time in New York after 5 whole MLB seasons.
Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed that Cortes had a very unhealthy approach of discovering out concerning the commerce. Cortes is at present in Las Vegas celebrating his birthday (Cortes turned 30 earlier this week) and awoke on Friday to loads of missed calls and texts that had him confused.
The Cuba native Cortes had a pleasant run with the Yankees and was an All-Star in 2022 (going 12-4 with a 2.44 ERA and a 0.92 WHIP that season). However the closing reminiscence of Cortes in pinstripes shall be of him giving up an epic grand slam to Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman in Recreation 1 of this yr’s World Sequence. A Cortes commerce was most likely solely a matter of time, too, after the Yankees handed out a historic contract to a different lefty starter simply days in the past.
