The Yankees have agreed to terms with 1B Russell Branyan on a Minor League contract and invited him to Spring Training. Branyan has destroyed Yankees pitching at home since 2009. Now 36, he has hit the two longest home runs in the short history of the new Yankee Stadium. Branyan batted .197 with five homers and 14 runs batted in with the Angels and Arizona last season.
Branyan holds a .234 batting average with 194 home runs in his career. In 2010, Branyan hit the longest home run in new Yankee Stadium history off of RHP Javier Vasquez while playing for Seattle. Branyan had hit the longest home run in the stadium's history in 2009 when he hit the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar in dead center in 2009 and has hit eight homers in 47 at-bats at the new Yankee Stadium including one in his only at-bat there last season.
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