AL East Notes: Yankees, Montgomery, Red Sox, Clevinger, Shenton
Prior to the southpaw finalizing with the Diamondbacks last night on a 1 year offer that ensures him $25MM, the Yankees were amongst the groups most often linked to Jordan Montgomery this winter season as the 31-year-old's previous club checked prospective rotation upgrades in totally free firm. Reporting linked the sides throughout the offseason and while preliminary reports suggested that New York was more concentrated on Blake Snell and Montgomery chose a go back to the Rangers, the sides apparently resumed settlements on a theoretical reunion recently. Per Jon Heyman of the New York Post, nevertheless, the sides never ever got especially near to an offer before the southpaw landed in Arizona.
Heyman composes that the Yankees stayed in talks with Montgomery's representative, Scott Boras...