Yanks move 2 of their minor league teams
Staten Island and Trenton being relocated for 2021
The New York Yankees will move minor league affiliates out of Staten Island and Trenton, N.J., in 2021 as part of a reorganization that is affecting teams across the majors.
The Yankees’ Double-a Trenton team will shift to Somerset County, N.J.
The Class A club that had been in Staten Island since 1999 will move upstate to Hudson Valley, previously an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Triple-a Scranton/ Wilkes-barre, which was the Yankees’ alternate training site during the pandemic-shortened season, will remain as New York’s top affiliate.
The Tampa affiliate that had been in the high Single-a Florida State League will shift to low Single-a. The Yankees also will keep a Gulf Coast League team in Tampa and a club in the Dominican Summer League.
Class A Charleston and Rookie Level Pulaski will not be Yankees affiliates next year.
Blue Jays: Pitcher Robbie Ray and Toronto reached agreement on a one-year, $8 million deal Saturday, making him the first of 181 free agents to get a new contract. Ray accepted a 15 percent cut from his $9.43 million, one-year deal with Arizona last year, which turned into $3,492,593 in prorated pay in the virus-shortened season. The Diamondbacks traded him to the Blue Jays on Aug. 31, and he pitched in the playoffs for Toronto.
Tigers: Detroit hired Scott Coolbaugh as hitting coach, George Lombard as bench coach and Chip Hale as thirdbase coach. The Tigers announced the additions to new manager AJ Hinch’s staff Saturday.