PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Phillies picked up the contract option for reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee by retaining the left handed American for another season at nine million dollars.
NEW YORK – The World Series champion New York Yankees paraded through the streets of Manhattan Friday, two days after their six-game series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi, heading home in triumph from the World Series, stopped to help out at a road accident, police said.
Outfielder Bobby Abreu agreed to a two-year, 19 million-dollar deal with the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday, foregoing the free-agent market.
NEW YORK — Hideki Matsui drove in six runs in a World Series clinching victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday in what may turn out to be the grandest of exits from the New York Yankees.