The Yankees have designated Jose Veras for assignment to make room on the roster for Brian Bruney, according to Ken Davidoff's Twitter page.

Veras has struggled this season, putting up an an ERA of 5.96 in 25 appearances this season. His opponents' batting average and OBP are both somewhat similar to last year, when he was relatively successful, but the slugging average has gone up about 50 points (.404 to .459).

charitybuzz has some Yankees related auctions where you can pick up tickets, memorabilia or some player related experience and benefit charity at the same time. Most notable, meet Mo and send your child to a Jeter-led baseball clinic. Both of those auctions expire tomorrow.

Peter Abraham reports that Dr. James Andrews looked at Damaso Marte's arm and determined that surgery was not needed at this time. He has "shoulder inflammation" and was sent back to Tampa to get back on his throwing program.

Last year, I attended Blog World Expo (in it's second year) for the first time (see my recap) and participated in two panels: "How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets" and "Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media." It was a lot of fun and a great experience.

I'm happy to say that I'll be back at this year's edition, which runs from October 15-17 in Las Vegas. I'm on four panel proposals, so I am hoping to speak, as well as do another book signing this year, if they'll have me. But, it'll be a fun event no matter what happens!

I wanted to mention this for any of the bloggers that read this blog - they have great programming that applies to bloggers in general, but they also have specific sessions that apply to sports bloggers, as well. Beyond blogging, a myriad of subjects are covered, as well - social media, marketing, business, writing and much more. I'd love to meet some YanksBlog.com readers there and, to that end, I wanted to offer you a coupon code.

When purchasing through their site, use the coupon code IFROGGYVIP for 20% off. Their rates increase on July 1 (though the coupon will still be good after that), so if you are thinking of coming, now would be the best time to buy the ticket for the least amount of money. I hope to see you there!

Fox Sports has a video interview with Derek Jeter, conducted by Chris Rose. It's a fun little piece.

Via Ken Davidoff.

George A. King III at the Post reports that there is a good possibility that the Yankees will sign a Dominican catching prospect named Gary Sanchez. This is according to "industry sources."

"[Sanchez] has been in [the Yankees] camp a lot in the Dominican Republic and is an advanced catcher with big power who can really throw," King quotes a scout as saying. King notes that "the buzz" indicates that Sanchez may be looking for a signing bonus around $3 million.

Via Steve Lombardi.

After their recent words, Francisco Rodriguez confronted Brian Bruney today at the Stadium. Bryan Hoch and Marty Noble of MLB.com have a report and video. Bruney think it's done. We'll see.

Brian Cashman told Peter Abraham that Bruney will be activated on Tuesday, according to Brian Cashman.

For the first time in almost a week, the Yankees defeated a team by actually outplaying them. The Yankees pounced on Johan Santana for 9 runs and A.J. Burnett gave the Yankees 7 shutout innings en route to a 15–0 victory that brought the Yankees back within 2 games of the Red Sox in the A.L. East.

If I told you that A.J. Burnett would be going up against Johan Santana and that one of them would pitch 7 scoreless innings while the other would allow 9 and throw 82 pitches in 3 innings, most people would probably have guessed that Burnett was on the latter end of that. This time, however, it was Santana who got smacked around and it was Burnett who left the game unscathed. Santana was unable to record an out in the Yankees' 9-run 4th inning (Santana allowed 4 in the first; 4 of the 9 runs in the 3rd were charged to Brian Stokes) and Burnett for the most part stayed out of trouble, although he did have to work himself out of a bases loaded, nobody out jam in the top of the 3rd.

The offense clicked pretty much everywhere, as the only Yankee starters to go without a hit were A-Rod and Nick Swisher. Derek Jeter had 4 hits and Francisco Cervelli had 3, all by the time the 5th inning was over. Robinson Cano also had 3 hits including a home run in that big 4th inning. Hideki Matsui went yard during the inning as well.

The Yankees will have tomorrow off and will welcome the Washington Nationals into Yankee Stadium Tuesday night at 7:05 ET. CC Sabathia and Shairon Martis are slated to start.

Recap records: Patrick: 17–9, Seamus: 15–12, Andrew: 4–6

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Peter Abraham has the latest in the Francisco Rodriguez/Brian Bruney saga.

He also has Brad Penny's reply to Joe Girardi's belief that he hit A-Rod intentionally when he faced the Yankees last.

It's not pretty.