Yankees trade Sheffield to Tigers

NEW YORK - Gary Sheffield was traded from the New York Yankees to the Detroit Tigers on Friday for three pitching prospects. The Yankees exercised Sheffield's $13 million option last weekend to prevent him from becoming a free agent, and Sheffield said Wednesday the Yankees had asked him to provide a list of teams he wouldn't mind being traded to.

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