PLAYING TIME: Yankees secure Ellsbury

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Yankees | Deal done with Jacoby Ellsbury
Free-agent OF Jacoby Ellsbury (Red Sox) and the New York Yankees agreed to a seven-year contract Tuesday, Dec. 3, pending a physical. The deal is believed to be larger than the seven-year, $142 million deal of Los Angeles Dodgers OF Carl Crawford.  Source: New York Daily News - Mark Feinsand
 
BHQ take: Ellsbury is expected to take over CF, pushing Brett Gardner to LF and most likely turning him back into a strong side platoon rather than an every day player. AB will still need to be split among Alfonso Soriano, Ichiro Suzuki and

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