The Cleveland Browns have traded linebacker Barkevious Mingo, a former first-round pick, to the New England Patriots?in exchange for a fifth-round pick in 2017.The trade was reported by ESPNs Adam Schefter.Mingo, 25, was the sixth overall pick in the 2013 draft and has seven sacks in three seasons.The Browns did not pick up his fifth-year option, and he was scheduled to become a free agent after this season.The Patriots hope he will provide some additional pass rush.Mingo was drafted by the Browns when Mike Lombardi was general manager. Lombardi spent the 2014 and 2015 seasons as an assistant to the Patriots coaching staff and remains a confidant to coach Bill Belichick.The Patriots are deep at their end-of-the-line position, which is where Mingo projects to play, as Jabaal Sheard and Rob Ninkovich are starters and Chris Long, Shea McClellin and Trey Flowers are also on the depth chart.Ninkovich is rehabilitating from a torn triceps muscle that could sideline him into the regular season.The Patriots now have acquired the No. 6 and No. 7 overall picks from the 2013 NFL draft in separate trades. Earlier this offseason, the Patriots acquired offensive lineman Jonathan Cooper from the Arizona Cardinals in the trade that sent Chandler Jones to Arizona. The Browns selected Mingo with the sixth overall pick, and Cooper was picked by the Cardinals with the next selection in the first round.Mingo never found a role in Cleveland. He had been tried as a pass-rusher, then as a pass-defender, without much effectiveness at either. This training camp the Browns even tried him at inside linebacker, but his status with the team was summed up by Sashi Brown, the teams vice president of football operations, on Thursday morning when he met with Browns media in Tampa: Hes showing up on [special] teams. Wed like to see him show up more in the defense.Mingo started 16 games in three seasons, his sack total going from five to two to zero. The Browns recent first-round picks have not met expectations, as none of Clevelands four first-rounders taken between 2011 and 2013 is still with the team. Mingo was traded; running back Trent Richardson is out of the NFL; quarterback Brandon Weeden is a backup with Houston; and defensive tackle Phil Taylor is with the Broncos.Of the teams eight first-round picks from 2011 through 2015, only three are with the team, and one of them -- cornerback Justin Gilbert -- is fighting for a roster spot. Gilbert was drafted in the first round with quarterback Johnny Manziel in 2014.The Patriots also previously lost a 2017 fourth-round pick because of the penalties handed out as part of Deflategate.The Browns have acquired these 2017 picks: the Eagles first-round pick, the Titans second-round pick, the Colts seventh-round pick and now the Patriots fifth-round pick. They also own Philadelphias 2018 second-round pick.ESPN Patriots reporter Mike Reiss and ESPN Browns reporter Pat McManamon contributed to this report. Curtis DeLoatch Jersey Retro .Y. - Free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, fresh off winning the World Series with Boston, reached agreement with the rival New York Yankees on a seven-year contract worth about $153 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday night. Matt Szymanski Jersey Retro . 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If theyre Indian, Virat Kohli; if theyre South African, AB de Villiers; if theyre Australian, David Warner. And if theyre Zimbabwean? Dont feel bad if you drew a blank.Until last years fifty-over World Cup, Brendan Taylor might have been the obvious choice, but he has since retired. Hamilton Masakadza springs to mind as the next shoe-in, but even he has had it rough recently and was stripped of the captaincy after just one series in charge. His replacement, Graeme Cremer, has never been the first name on a Zimbabwean team sheet with a stuttering international career that has seen him quit for golf at least once, but now, he finds himself in the unlikely position of leading his country in all three formats.Cremers confirmation as Test captain, after taking over the reins for the limited-overs series against India, would have surprised even the man himself. He was taken aback when promoted to the role in the shorter formats and admitted he had not thought of leading before. But now, he has been tasked with taking Zimbabwe through their toughest tests of the last two years, specifically because they are Tests.Zimbabwe have not played in the longest format in 20 months, since touring Bangladesh in October-November 2014, a series they lost 3-0. They have not played Test cricket at home in almost two years since hosting South Africa in August 2014 for a one-off game, and they have not played Test cricket in Bulawayo in five years. Even if they wanted to look back at recent performances when deciding how to pick a squad for this, it would be futile.Instead, they have had two A games against South Africa A and two seasons of Logan Cup statistics to base their choices on, but even those could only have helped to some extent. The A games did not include all the Zimbabwean players in national contention and the Logan Cup finished well over four months ago, so selecting the men who will play against New Zealand has not been easy.For a start, it has involved axing veteran opener Vusi Sibanda, who finished third and fifth on the first-class run charts in the last two seasons respectively, but who, justifiably, seems to have run out of rope to try and translate that onto the international stage. Sixteen years into his international career, Sibanda has a Test average of 21.10, and although the scarcity of the game time he gets in the longest format - Sibanda has played just 14 Tests in that time - is a mitigating factor, his numbers are simply not good enough.Instead, Zimbabwe are turning to Tino Mawoyo, who has not played international cricket in more than two years, but scored a century in a Test in Bulawayo against Pakistan in 2011, and has been playing for the A side. Mawoyo did not cash in as much as some of his team-mates in the A series, but scored an unbeaten 79 to suggest form is not far away. Either uncapped Prince Masvaure, who scored a century in the A series, or Brian Chari, who made 98, is likely to partner him, with Masakadza set to come in at No. 3.But it is the No. 4 position which will be the most crucial for Zimbabwes line-up because it used to be Taylors. It is there that most teams batting either prospers or perishes, and it needs someone with experience and a solid temperament to occupy it. Craig Ervine, Sikandar Raza and Peter Moore are all in contention. Errvine topped last seasons Logan Cup run charts and has shown the ability to bat in tough situations and push Raza, who brings feistiness but not much recent form, or Moor, who has been in good nick domestically but is yet to play a Test, a bit further down.dddddddddddd. Whatever Zimbabwe decide, it remains an area of vulnerability for them.Their lower-middle order will need to be held together by Sean Williams, who will also provide a slower bowling option, and whoever is tasked with keeping wicket. Richmond Mutumbami is the incumbent and Regis Chakabva did the job during the A series, but Moor could also fit the role. In essence, what Zimbabwe have done is give themselves options for every position, perhaps too many options, in a bid to cover all their bases.The only thing that is certain is that they will go into both Tests with a legspinner, Cremer, which gives them a ready-made attacking option. On what is expected to be a slow, low Queens surface, that means some of the seamers will have to be prepared to do a holding job, which may be why Shingi Masakadza, who was the leading wicket-taker in last seasons Logan Cup, was overlooked.With Tinashe Panyangara out injured, Masakadza may have been a useful new-ball partner to Tendai Chatara. It will be left to Njabulo Ncube, Taurai Muzarabani and Donald Tiripano to tussle for that task. Ncube has returned to Zimbabwe after a two-year coaching stint at a South African school, and last played domestic cricket in the country three years ago. He has not played an international since 2011, when he was part of the Test XI that lost marginally to New Zealand in Bulawayo, and has only added a single ODI cap to his name since. Ncube played one of the A games against South Africa A, where he went wicketless, and was included in the Test squad on that basis, which may leave Brian Vitori, who made his comeback during the A series after six months on the sidelines, feeling a little hard done by.Although Vitori was expensive and is clearly lacking game time, something common to most of Zimbabwes players at the moment, his left-arm action would have offered something different. Instead, Zimbabwe have gone for more of the same with Chatara, Ncube, Muzarabani and Tiripano, all of whom are right-arm seamers. Perhaps variation is not on top of their priority list at the moment, but getting value certainly is.With Zimbabwe not even playing enough Tests to have a ranking yet, they need as many games as possible. They need a lot of other things too - like certainty around the coaching structures, with Makhaya Ntini still occupying the head coach berth although the length of his tenure remains undecided - but matches, especially Test matches, are the most important. With talk of a two-tier Test league growing, Zimbabwe will want to make sure they are competitive enough to play in the second tier, which is inevitably where they will end up if the new structure takes hold soon.To test themselves, they have two matches against New Zealand now, and are due for two more against Sri Lanka later this year. In between that, they will play domestic competitions and aim to attract more offers from other countries to visit. Its not much, but its a start to finding out which names to put on the team sheet first. ' ' '