Friday’s commerce between the New York Yankees and the Milwaukee Brewers didn’t precisely come at time for Nestor Cortes.
The veteran lefty Cortes was despatched by the Yankees to the Brewers as a part of a package deal for an All-Star reliever. The transfer ends Cortes’ time in New York after 5 complete MLB seasons.
Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed that Cortes had a very unhealthy manner of discovering out concerning the commerce. Cortes is presently in Las Vegas celebrating his birthday (Cortes turned 30 earlier this week) and wakened on Friday to a variety 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 remaining reminiscence of Cortes in pinstripes can be of him giving up an epic grand slam to Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman in Recreation 1 of this yr’s World Collection. A Cortes commerce was in all probability solely a matter of time too after the Yankees handed out a historic contract to a different lefty starter simply days in the past.
