Skip to main content
Larry Brown Sports Tagline. Brown Bag it, Baby.
#pounditFriday, March 29, 2024

Nick Swisher signs minor league deal to return to Yankees

Nick-Swisher-Yankees

A little over three years after a departure that didn’t take place on the best of terms, Nick Swisher is headed back to the New York Yankees.

The team announced Saturday that Swisher was joining the team on a minor league deal.

Swisher’s career has been a long, strange trip since his departure. He joined the Cleveland Indians in 2013, where his numbers dropped but he was a part of a playoff team. Injuries have cost him dearly over the past two seasons, limiting him to just 173 games in which he struggled mightily, hitting .204 with minimal power. He was traded to Atlanta in a salary dump move in 2015, and they released him during spring training. He’s now 35 and little more than a depth signing for the Yankees.

Swisher departed the Yankees as a free agent after 2012, in which he struggled mightily during the playoffs and reacted poorly to being booed at home. Still, he thinks enough of New York to head back there, so he must not have too many hard feelings.

.

Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast!

Sports News Minute Podcast
comments powered by Disqus