Angels Trade Vernon Wells To Yankees

[key2win]

[gladdyontherise]

Congrats!!!!

[Negron-23]

Woo hoo! Between the Knicks and Yankees I think we'll have more 30 somethings than any other two sports teams.

[Dave Crum]

And just when you thought they couldnt get much older!!

[ocanseco55]

who are the Angels getting?

[key2win]

Yanks are paying like $6-7 million a year on his contract plus a minor leaguer or two. Win either way for Angels. LOL

[key2win]

Y! SPORTS

It is finally official!!!

Wells' trade to the Yankees was finalized Tuesday, when New York dealt a pair of minor leaguers to the Angels: outfielder Exircado Cayones and left-hander Kramer Sneed.

The Angels will pay $28.1 million of the $42 million that Wells is owed over the final two seasons of the $126 million, seven-year contract he signed with Toronto.

The Angels will give New York $9.5 million this year and $18.6 million in 2014, leaving the Yankees to pay $11.5 million this year and $2.4 million in 2014. The structure was designed to help the Angels to stay under the luxury tax threshold of $178 million this year and help the Yankees get under it in 2014, when the threshold rises to $189 million.

A three-time All-Star, Wells hit .230 with 11 homers and 29 RBIs last year and has just 36 homers and 95 RBIs in two seasons with the Angels. He is batting .361 in spring training with four homers and 11 RBIs in 36 at-bats.

The 21-year-old Cayones, acquired by the Yankees from Pittsburgh last year in the deal sending A.J. Burnett to the Pirates, hit .228 with 15 RBIs last year in 158 at-bats for the Class A Staten Island Yankees.

Sneed, 24, was 0-7 with a 5.37 ERA at Class A Tampa last season.

[Negron-23]

Ok. Now bring me your Vernon Wells cards everyone.