Warren excited to be back ‘home’ with Yanks

HOUSTON — The shock of being traded by the only organization he had known was dissipating, and Adam Warren wanted to embrace a new beginning. The right-hander decided that a little spring cleaning might help, and so he emptied his drawers of anything with the word “Yankees” on it.

Fortunately, as Warren remarked on Monday, those team-issued shirts and shorts are still in boxes. He will have the opportunity to break them out of storage now that he is back in a Yankees uniform, following his acquisition from the Cubs in Monday’s blockbuster Aroldis Chapman trade.

“This kind of feels like home,” Warren said. “I enjoyed my time over there in Chicago, but it didn’t quite work out for me and so I’m happy to come back somewhere that I’m comfortable and I feel like people know me. Hopefully I can kind of fit right back in.”

Warren, 28, was 3-2 with a 5.91 ERA in 29 games (one start) for the Cubs this season, having been traded to Chicago in December with infielder Brendan Ryan for second baseman Starlin Castro. He said that he did not seem to have a set role in the Cubs’ bullpen, which could have contributed to his …

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