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NY Yankees’ Acquisition of Vernon Wells Is Utterly Pointless and Just Atrocious

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The New York Yankees neared the acquisition of outfielder Vernon Wells from the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night (via Yahoo Sports). The Angels will pay $29 million of the $42 million owed to Wells for the last two seasons of his contract. 

The piling injuries looks to have pushed the Yankees to the point of desperation, and in their desperation they turned to a player they fully didn't understand. 

Wells came to a similarly desperate Angels team in 2011 as a massive salary dump by the Toronto Blue Jays when Anaheim missed out on the likes of Carl Crawford and Jayson Werth.

He struggled mightily in two years with the team, posting a .222/.258/.409/.667 line with an 86 OPS+ along with a WAR of -0.3. He was ...

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