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19 years ago today, Tino & Nelson become Yankees!

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With longtime captain Don Mattingly unsure if he would return in 1996, the Yankees made a trade with the team that just beat them in the playoffs to bring in their first baseman. Off to Seattle went young lefty Sterling Hitchcock and hot third base prospect Russ Davis, and back to the Bronx came relievers Jeff Nelson and Jim Mecir as well as a first baseman named Tino Martinez. Success!