MINNEAPOLIS -- The New York Yankees reunion with Alfonso Soriano is likely over after the team designated the struggling outfielder for assignment on Sunday. Isaac Yiadom Broncos Jersey . Soriano returned to New York midway through last season and sparked the offence with 17 home runs in 58 games. But Soriano hit just .221 this season with six homers and 23 RBIs in 67 games. The Yankees announced the move shortly after acquiring Arizona right-handed starter Brandon McCarthy for lefty Vidal Nuno. "We designated Soriano, which is extremely difficult because hes been a great Yankee and a great player," New York manager Joe Girardi said before Sundays game at Minnesota. Sorianos playing time decreased considerably this year after New York signed Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran in the off-season. He recently has been splitting time in right field with Ichiro Suzuki since Beltran was injured and is now limited to designated hitter. But the slugger who started his major league career with the Yankees in 1999 and has 412 career homers has not connected since May 17 and has struck out 71 times in 226 at-bats. The 38-year-old Soriano is in the final year of an eight-year, $136 million deal he signed with the Chicago Cubs, who are paying $13 million of his $18 million salary this year. The Yankees have 10 days to trade or place Soriano on unconditional waivers. If he clears waivers, New York can release him. "For Soriano, its a guy that came in and did a tremendous job for us last year, has had his struggles this year and hes a guy thats used to playing every day," Girardi said. "Wasnt every day for him, maybe it was harder for him to get going, not sure. Im sure hes extremely disappointed. Soriano always takes things with class." The Yankees recalled pitcher Bruce Billings from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Billings pitched in one game for New York this season, allowing four runs in four innings on April 25 against the Los Angeles Angels. Girardi has an open spot in the starting rotation after Nuno was traded to the Diamondbacks. Nuno was slated to start on Monday and McCarthy pitched on Thursday. New York wont force McCarthy into Nunos spot on short rest. Billings -- who has started 11 games in Triple-A -- wont be a candidate to start on Monday, Girardi said. An announcement will be made later. "The taxing of our bullpen kind of forced us to make this move, in a sense," Girardi said. "Im not saying it wouldnt have happened, but we decided we had to make it today because we need to." Royce Freeman Jersey . Others describe it as taking the parrot for a walk. DaeSean Hamilton Jersey . James scored 25 points against his former team, leading the energized Heat to a 114-107 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night. Dwyane Wade added 24 points and Chris Bosh had 22 for the Heat, idle since a 90-84 loss Tuesday at Indiana. http://www.thebroncosstoreonline.com/Youth-Isaac-Yiadom-Broncos-Jerseys/ . CEO Steve Koonin on Tuesday told the Hawks flagship radio station that he made the decision to discipline Ferry but allowed him to keep his job managing the team. He did not say what the punishment was, but noted that he relied on a law firms three-month investigation of Ferry and him describing Deng as someone who has a little African in him.England were made to wait to wrap up victory in the second Investec Test as Sri Lanka’s batsman put in a much-improved performance in their second innings at Durham. Having been bowled out for 101 early on day three, Sri Lanka were invited to follow on, trailing by 397 runs, and frustrated England for the most part to close on 309-5.Angelo Mathews top-scored for the tourists with 80 with opener Kaushal Silva and No 6 Dinesh Chandimal also making half-centuries while James Anderson picked up 2-40 for England. Steven Finn admitted it was a hard day for England as Sri Lanka fought back to finish on 309-5 on day three of the second Test. Sri Lanka require another 88 to make England bat again with the hosts five wickets away from a series win.The visitors began the day on 91-8 in their first innings and England made short work of mopping up the tail - Stuart Broad had Suranga Lakmal caught behind in the first over of the day before Lahiru Thirimanne skied one to Nick Compton at point, attempting a big shot against Anderson in the fourth.After skittling Sri Lanka cheaply three times already in the series, England would have hoped for a similar result here as they enforced the follow on. However, there was hitherto unseen resilience shown by the Sri Lankan batsman in their second innings. England were made to wait to wrap up victory in the second Test as Sri Lanka’s batsman put in a much-improved performance in their second innings at Durham Dimuth Karunaratne (26) and Silva looked busy from the off and had patiently put on 38 for the first wicket before Chris Woakes found the formers edge with a ball angled across his body, Joee Root taking the catch at second slip. Bradley Chubb Jersey. usal Mendis joined Silva and the pair saw their side through to lunch without any further damage.Mendis then took 14 runs from the first five balls of an Anderson over shortly after the break but was undone by the last - a brilliant delivery that nipped away off the pitch to take the edge and give Jonny Bairstow a straightforward catch behind the stumps.Thirimanne, promoted to No 4, was the next man in but he too was dismissed by a beauty, this time from Moeen Ali. The off-spinner turning the ball past the left-handers edge and knocking back his off stump. Watch this brilliant piece of bowling from Moeen Ali as he spins one past Lahiru Thirimanne and knocks back off his stump That brought Silva and Mathews together and the pair managed to frustrate England for the next 20 overs. Silva brought up his half-century from 111 balls while, after a steady start, Mathews began to take the attack to the England bowlers.A stand of 82 was eventually broken by Steven Finn. The Middlesex quick had looked out of sorts for much of the day and it was only when he got riled up that he began to look threatening.He seemed to gain a yard of pace and that was enough to find a leading edge from Silva (57); Bairstow taking the catch as the ball looped up.Mathews pushed on and went past 50 in 63 balls after tea, hitting six fours and a maximum in the process but he was eventually dismissed as Anderson returned and induced the edge with Bairstow diving to his right to take the catch.However, Sri Lanka refused to wilt and Chandimal (54 not out) and Milinda Siriwardana (35 not out) added another 82 to the total to keep England waiting, the former driving beautifully through the covers to bring up his fifty shortly before stumps.Watch day four of the second Investec Test from 10.30am, Monday, Sky Sports 2. Before then, you can catch highlights of day three (8pm), plus The Verdict (9pm) on Sky Sports 2 on Sunday night. 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