The Brandon Drury Yankees era ends even before we begin

When the Yankees acquired Brandon Drury from the Diamondbacks as part of a three-team exchange in February, it is fair to say that no one has seen his tenure in the Bronx come to an end as well.

Drury was traded Thursday, this time to the Blue Jays, in a part of a package for leftist judge JA Happ.

Drury, 25, was to provide insurance if Miguel Andujar or Gleyber Torres were not ready to start the season. As he reminded reporters after his move to the Blue Jays became official, Drury opened the season as a Yankees third baseman.

But after a series of four games in April, Drury told the Yankees that he had blurred vision. While the Yankees were trying to understand the cause of Drury's health problems, Andujar arrived and brought with him what CEO Brian Cashman called Thursday "a new world order."

Drury ended up playing in just 18 games with the Yankees – and 61 in the minors – which led to conversations between the two sides about a potential move. He went only 9-in-57 with three more shots with the Yankees, while Andujar emerged as one of the best rookies in the game.

"It's a small sample," says Drury . "It's not who I am."

"It was not acquired to be a deep piece," Cashman said. "[Andujar] changed the landscape of what we were looking for."

When asked if he thought he had received a shot from the Yankees, Drury was a diplomat.

"I had bad breaks along the way. I said. "I just had things that were not planned … Baseball is a crazy game, it just did not work."

Drury said the Blue Jays had told him that he would be in the starting lineup Friday at White Sox, a promise that Aaron Boone could not often make.

why we had him was we had really feel like he's a big league third baseman, "said Boone." We still feel that. It was a set of unique circumstances that made this year a grueling year for him and in many ways unfair to him. Hope that he has a new chance [with Toronto].

Cashman said that he was motivated to relocate Drury, who repeatedly said that he was a major league player playing Triple-A. But he added that he would have exchanged Drury "only in the right circumstances" and that several teams inquired about him.

"This was certainly not what I was expecting this season as a Yankee, but it happened."

And he did not regret talking about his health problems

"I have a long career in front of me," Drury says. "I'm happy to have found answers rather than continue playing."