Yankees will have new reliever acquisition join the team in Arizona.
Yesterday the New York Yankees acquired Jake Cousins from the Chicago White Sox for cash considerations, and they’ll be pressing him into action almost immediately. After spending his entire MLB career with the Milwaukee Brewers, he would bounce around to the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox over the last year and now finds himself in the Bronx with the Yankees. The hard-throwing right-hander has a nasty repertoire including a sweeping slider and hard sinker, and could fit the profile of a reliever that Matt Blake and company do well developing.
This news was first reported by Erik Boland of Newsday, and there is no word on who the Yankees will demote as the corresponding move for the 29-year-old right-hander.
Jake Cousins is Expected to Join the Yankees This Series
With the Yankees shuffling their bullpen around with the demotion of Clayton Beeter, which resulting in them rostering Tanner Tully and designating Nick Ramirez for assignment, they’ll add another transaction to the shuffle. The trade itself is official, as the team announced on their Twitter page about the transaction, but he had yet to be placed on an active roster yet. Since Cousins had a MiLB option, they could have sent him down to Triple-A for now, but they’ll instead carry him on their Major League roster.
Cousins was not on the Chicago White Sox 40-man roster, which means the Yankees will have to clear a roster spot for him, although that doesn’t seem like it’ll be too difficult. They could designate Tanner Tully for assignment even though they haven’t used him, as they didn’t have him on their 40-man roster until they demoted Beeter, and he could potentially pass through waivers and accept the outright assignment to Scranton.
