New York Yankees

By Vince Mercandetti Yankees have lost from the payroll: Andy Pettitte, Xavier Nady, Brian Bruney, Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Chien-Ming Wang, Sergio Mitre, Chad Gaudin, Edwar Ramirez (to the minors), Jonathan Albaladejo (to the minors), Jose Molina, Jerry Hairston Jr. and Eric Hinske.

By Dave Nichols Non-tendered RH RP Mike MacDougal and LH SP Scott Olsen. Offered arbitration to C Jesus Flores , OF Josh Willingham, C Wil Nieves, RH RP Jason Bergmann, RH RP Brian Bruney, and LH RP Sean Burnett. Signed RH RP Ryan Speier to a minor league contract. Signed LH SP Scott Olsen to an incentive-hea...

By Adam Bernacchio Bruney was acquired from the New York Yankees for a player to be named later (Jamie Hoffmann) and now stands to be the Nationals’ closer in 2010. As scary as that seems, there is nobody else in Washington right now who even remotely looks capable of closing games.

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The Yankees also came to terms with Andy Pettitte on a one year deal. In a smaller move, the Yanks sent reliever Brian Bruney to the Nationals for the first ...

By Chad Jennings The Yankees entered the Winter Meetings with a wealth of solid pitching, but a thin big league bench. Trading Bruney let them deal from a position of strength to address a position of weakness. Why should Bruney be the one to go? His salary should be around $2 million next year, he was expe...

After four up-and-down years, both on the field and on the scale, the Yankees traded Brian Bruney to the Nationals on Monday, today getting back the Rule 5 draft rights to outfielder Jamie Hoffmann, a 25-year-old outfielder from the Dodgers' organization.

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INDIANAPOLIS - The New York Yankees acquired outfielder Jamie Hoffmann on Thursday, completing this week's trade that sent reliever Brian Bruney to Washington. The...

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By Associated Press The New York Yankees have acquired outfielder Jamie Hoffmann, completing this week's trade that sent reliever Brian Bruney to Washington.

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By Greg Fertel With the 1st pick in the 2009 Rule 5 Draft that the Yankees received in return for Brian Bruney, they selected Jamie Hoffmann, an outfielder in the Dodgers' system. Hoffmann will be 25-years-old for the 2009 season, stands 6'3" tall and weighs 220. Interestingly enough, he was undrafted an...

By Greg Fertel The Yankees unloaded Brian Bruney to the Nationals and received a player to be named later in the deal that happened to be whoever the Nationals take with their first overall pick in the Rule 5 draft. The draft takes place at the winter meetings tomorrow. It is quite possible that the Yankees t...

Cashman cited the Yankees’ bullpen depth - which includes up-and-coming arms such as Mark Melancon and Zach McAllister - as one of the reasons for the Brian Bruney trade. The Yankees were also planning to non-tender Bruney, according to a source, so it made sense to get something for him.

By Greg Fertel The Rule 5 draft is Thursday, and I look forward to finding out who it is the Yankees had in mind when they made this deal. Mark Feinsand is reporting that the Yankees are receiving the Nationals' first overall pick in the upcoming Rule 5 draft in exchange for Brian Bruney. I find this to be very i...

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By noreply@blogger.com (Drew Sarver) Brian Bruney was supposed to be the Yankees to go guy in the late innings this past season. Things started out well, but than injuries and poor pitching led to a mop up role and a seat on the bench for all but one game in the post-season. Bruney will have a fresh start next season with the Washingto...

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By Marc Carig/The Star-Ledger Report: Bruney traded to Nationals Report: Bruney traded to Nationals

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By Chad Jennings After the Brian Bruney trade, the Yankees have the top pick in this year’s draft (unless they trade it). Even at No. 1, though, this year’s class seems thin. “There’s nothing,” said one scout who’s not with the Yankees. “I don’t think we’re going to be active at all.”

By Sean P 7 Yankees were protected from the Rule 5 network today: So naturally this will start plenty of speculation about the Yankees plans. Do they only plan on signing only one of Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Andy Pettitte? Or are they planning on some free agent prize? Brian Bruney-RHP

By Sam Borden Joe Girardi just announced that the Yankees will take the series that starts tomorrow and that A.J. Burnett will start Game 2. More soon. UPDATE, 4:36 p.m.: Girardi did not announce his entire roster for the division series but said that Brian Bruney, Sergio Mitre and Ramiro Pena will go to Tampa...

By Vince Mercandetti The candidates include: Sergio Mitre, Damaso Marte, Chad Gaudin and Brian Bruney. With built in days off and the versatility of Alfredo Aceves, I think Chad Gaudin and Sergio Mitre's value disappears, even if the Yankees elect to go with Joba Chamberlain as a fourth starter in a shorter se...

By Vince Mercandetti A healthy Damaso Marte and Phil Coke should guide the left side while a healthy and rested Alfredo Aceves, Dave Robertson, Mariano Rivera and Phil Hughes will lead righty relievers. Where names like Bruney and Chamberlain factor in is yet to be decided, but I'll take the best reliever of th...

 NJ A healthy Bruney can make a world of difference in the Yankees bullpen. When the Yankees activate Bruney tomorrow they will have to make a roster move. To some this move is obvious. The Yanks have a number of ineffective arms in the pen, and removing ...

By Cecil Harris Emotions always run high in the Subway Series. Just ask Mets' relief ace, Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez and Yankees’ reliever Brian Bruney. They had to be separated in the outfield before today’s game after two days of verbal sparring in the media.  

By Vince Mercandetti The slightly less ERA means the Yankees will project basically around what they performed last season, even without Joba in the bullpen and with more reliance on Marte, Coke, Bruney and Albaladejo, whom I would take over Farnsworth, Hawkins and Ohlendorf. For reference, the Yankees we...

Yankees pitcher Brian Bruney: "I like a few teams. I like Oklahoma, I like Pitt and I like North Carolina. But Louisville, I think, is going to surprise everybody. So I'm going to say Louisville." Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira: "I'm an ACC guy, so I'm gonna go with North Carolina."

By Peter Abraham Here’s Joe Girardi’s postgame interview. There were mostly baseball questions (Posada, Bruney, Hughes, Melancon) but a few on A-Rod, the crowd reaction to A-Rod and his cousin. It runs for about seven minutes: The Associated Press just reported that the Yankees have ordered A-Rod to kee...