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Reuters
04-07-2025
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Report: Yankees sign INF Nicky Lopez to minor league deal
July 3 - The New York Yankees signed veteran infielder Nicky Lopez to a minor league deal, FanSided reported Thursday. The Yankees had previously designated infielder CJ Alexander for assignment, and the Los Angeles Dodgers claimed him off waivers from New York earlier Thursday. The Yankees have been struggling defensively in recent weeks, and Lopez, 30, could provide a steady glove. Lopez was an American League Gold Glove Award finalist last year at second base with the Chicago White Sox. He has made 292 starts at second base, 265 at shortstop and 49 at third base in his major league career. However, Lopez was batting .056 (1-for-18) for the Chicago Cubs over 14 games when they decided to designate him for assignment in May. He started the season with the Los Angeles Angels and played in four games, going 0-for-6 at the plate. Lopez is a career .245 hitter over 686 MLB games with the Kansas City Royals (2019-23), Atlanta Braves (2023), White Sox, Angels and Cubs. His best season came in 2021, when he batted .300 and recorded 21 doubles and 43 RBIs in 151 games for Kansas City. Alexander, 28, did not get into a game for the Yankees. He has played 10 major league games, including six for the Athletics earlier this season, and batted .160 (4-for-25). --Field Level Media
Reuters
30-06-2025
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Yankees place RHP Fernando Cruz (oblique) on IL
June 30 - The New York Yankees placed reliever Fernando Cruz on the injured list Monday with a left oblique strain. The move is retroactive to June 28. Cruz returned June 3 from a previous 15-day IL stint, that time for shoulder inflammation. The 35-year-old is 2-3 with a 3.00 ERA and two saves in 32 appearances out of the bullpen this season. The Yankees also called up right-hander Geoff Hartlieb from Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre. Hartlieb, 31, is on his fifth major-league team, having compiled a 1-1 record with a 7.37 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 79.1 innings of relief with the Pittsburgh Pirates (2019-21), New York Mets (2021), Miami Marlins (2023) and Colorado Rockies (2024). He has a 3-2 record with a 3.34 ERA and two saves in 24 games in Triple-A this season. In a corresponding move, infielder CJ Alexander was designated for assignment to open up room on the 40-man roster. Alexander, 28, was claimed off waivers from the Athletics on June 8 but did not see any action with the Yankees. Across his 10 MLB games with the Athletics and the Kansas City Royals, he has gone 4-for-25 (.160) with no walks or extra-base hits. --Field Level Media
Reuters
08-06-2025
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Yankees claim CJ Alexander from Athletics
June 8 - The New York Yankees claimed infielder CJ Alexander off waivers from the Athletics and optioned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. Alexander, 28, had been designated for assignment on Thursday after six games with the A's. Alexander batted 3-for-17 (.176) with eight strikeouts in his smattering of big-league appearances. He made two starts apiece at first base and third base and also saw time in the outfield. Alexander made his major league debut in June 2024, playing four games for the Kansas City Royals. Across his 10 MLB games, he's gone 4-for-25 (.160) with no walks or extra-base hits. The Yankees have had injuries throughout their infield this season, most notably losing starting third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera to an ankle fracture. DJ LeMahieu and Jazz Chisholm Jr. have spent time on the IL but are now healthy. --Field Level Media
Yahoo
24-04-2025
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Ohio Game Wardens Who Busted CJ Alexander Honored with Pope and Young Award
A pair of Ohio game wardens who cracked one of the biggest poaching cases in state history — the CJ Alexander buck — have been honored for their work by the Pope and Young Club. Isaiah Gifford and Matt Roberts, both wildlife officers with the state's Department of Natural Resources, received P&Y's Wildlife Law Enforcement Officer Award at the club's Arizona convention this month. P&Y gives out the award once every two years to an officer (or in this case, officers) for their outstanding work related to wildlife violations. 'We started [an award] back in 1995 to recognize wildlife biologists for their work, and I started thinking we need to something [similar] for conservation officers,' P&Y conservation chair and retired game warden Doug Clayton tells Outdoor Life. 'You look at all the work these officers do and it's [mostly] behind the scenes. So the general public doesn't see this, and even the hunting community, they know poaching goes on but they don't really know the extent of it.' Gifford and Roberts are the first-ever co-recipients of the award as well as the first Ohioans, according to the agency. Giffords, 26, has worked for the DNR since 2023, while Roberts has more than 20 years with the agency. The two officers were selected for the award because of their roles investigating the now-notorious poaching case involving CJ Alexander. After using a crossbow to poach what would have been Ohio's new No. 1 all-time typical whitetail, Alexander made up an elaborate story to cover up the fact that he committed more than a dozen related crimes, including repeated trespassing. He then shared that fabricated story to promote himself and the deer with multiple media outlets — which included interviews with Outdoor Life and selling his story to at least one other hunting outlet. 'This was an excellent case,' Clayton says. 'A lot of wildlife cases are cut and dry, but then you have these big ones that just spiderweb out — you find one thing that leads to something else, and sometimes you're dealing with multiple jurisdictions or the Feds. A lot of people just don't realize how involved some of these cases are, and what it takes to bring them to fruition.' Gifford and Roberts conducted a careful investigation for a full year. Although Alexander repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and doubled down on his innocence, the two wardens eventually cracked the case wide open by securing his cell phone records. The texts, GPS location data, and other evidence therein revealed Alexander's long history with the buck he nicknamed 'Megatron', along with his true intentions for killing the deer. In Alexander's own words, texted to his fiancé just a few weeks before he poached the 200-plus-inch buck: 'I'm gonna get offered stupid money for this deer head babe …. Like buying house type money … This deer is gonna make us money.' Read Next: CJ Alexander to Serve Time, Pay $43K for Poaching Giant Ohio Buck and Trying to Cover It Up In October 2024, Alexander pleaded guilty to 14 charges related to the poaching. He was sentenced in December to 90 days in jail, along with $43,000 in fines. Of that, $39,696.73 went directly to the Ohio Wildlife Fund to reimburse the state for the loss of such an incredible buck. (Like some states, Ohio calculates a special restitution fee based on total inches of antler of an illegally-taken deer.) Alexander's accomplices, his sister Kristina and his friends Corey and Zachary Haunert, also pleaded guilty and were charged separately. The last recipient of P&Y's Wildlife Law Enforcement Officer Award was Lt. Stacey Lewton of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in 2023. Lewton and the NGPC were instrumental in the Hidden Hills Outfitters bust, which spanned multiple states and involved more than 30 other individuals, including the Bowmars.
