Multiple all-star and Gold Glove winner Ivan ‘Pudge’ Rodriguez has been traded from the Detroit Tigers to the hated New York Yankees.  The Tigers got well-traveled relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth in the deal according to ESPN.

Rodriguez, who is in the final year of the contract he signed with the Tigers in 2004 that will ultimately pay him $50 million, waived his no-trade clause to join the Yankees.

“Pudge has always wanted to play in New York and Detroit felt it needed a relief pitcher, so both sides were able to get what they wanted to some degree,” Rodriguez’s agent Scott Boras told The Associated Press.

The Yankees must think they have a chance to compete this year.  Although the price they paid for Pudge, Kyle Farnsworth, isn’t exactly all that much.

Pudge is hitting .295 but his power has mysteriously been missing since MLB started testing for steroids a couple of years ago.