A Rod - Unjustly maligned

Anti-Yankee? Maybe, but the way the team has been ran the last few years - why not?
 
Nearco said:
Anti-Yankee? Maybe, but the way the team has been ran the last few years - why not?
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Agree on some parts and yeah the last 7 years the team has not been run well. The way the media and fans have treated him is not all fair but the guy was getting 26 mil and playing not great in October when it matters. As we all know its not regular season stats and MVP's its all about winning the championship‘s in New York.

I hate it when people say Jeter, Posada and Moose are overrated there team players A-Rod just plays for himself. They have one thing A-rod wants championships (4 of them).
 
Rooney1987 said:
Agree on some parts and yeah the last 7 years the team has not been run well. The way the media and fans have treated him is not all fair but the guy was getting 26 mil and playing not great in October when it matters. As we all know its not regular season stats and MVP's its all about winning the championship‘s in New York.

I hate it when people say Jeter, Posada and Moose are overrated there team players A-Rod just plays for himself. They have one thing A-rod wants championships (4 of them).
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Moose won feck all, and Jeter and Posada had solid a solid pitching staff to rely on. Jeter seems untouchable and that`s just wrong, ARod is a superior player in every way including fielding.
 
Nearco said:
Moose won feck all, and Jeter and Posada had solid a solid pitching staff to rely on. Jeter seems untouchable and that`s just wrong, ARod is a superior player in every way including fielding.
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He maybe a superior player but he's won feck all.
 
It's always about the money for ARod.

Sources: Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine
(Archive)

Updated: November 2, 2007, 1:40 PM ET

Before Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract with the Yankees earlier this week, the team was told that it would not be able to meet with the third baseman unless it presented an offer of at least $350 million, sources say.

The Yankees had hoped to meet with Rodriguez this week, and would have presented him with an extension offer close to five years and $150 million, to begin at the conclusion of his 2008-2010 contract, through which he would have earned $81 million. Through the Yankees' proposal, then, Rodriguez would have made about $230 million over eight years, and during the last five years of the contract, sources say, he would have earned the highest annual salary in Major League Baseball history.

But team executives were told, sources say, that in order to arrange a meeting with Rodriguez, they would have to be prepared to make an extension offer that would take the third baseman's deal up to a total value of $350 million. That means that the offer the Yankees intended to propose would have been more than $100 million short.

Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, sent the documentation of Rodriguez's intention to opt out of the contract to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman during Game 4 of the World Series, Cashman has said, and the GM did not speak with Boras until after news of the decision was published on SI.com.

The timing of how this played out, and the fact that Rodriguez did not meet with the Yankees to hear their offer before making his decision, has led some baseball officials to surmise that a deal with another team may already be in the works. In an interview with ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick on Thursday, Boras said, "We have had no economic discussions regarding Alex Rodriguez with any major-league team."

The Mets, Dodgers, Angels, Giants and Marlins are among the teams which have not publicly ruled out pursuing Rodriguez. Sources say it is highly unlikely that the Dodgers will seriously entertain the possibility.
 
Apparently he will resign with the Yankees on a 10 year, $272m contract. Boras is acting strictly as an advisor through a conference call. Here is the article that apparently sited how ARod and Yankees management met without Boras' knowledge and approval.

Report: Yanks willing to talk to A-Rod, but without Boras
ESPN.com news services

Updated: November 14, 2007, 11:54 AM ET

The New York Yankees have been discussing a deal with their former All-Star third baseman Alex Rodriguez -- but the team says a deal can only move forward if his agent, Scott Boras, is not part of the talks, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

According to the report, a high-ranking Yankees source said the team is willing to bring back A-Rod on a below-market contract that would make up for the $21 million subsidy from the Texas Rangers that the Yankees lost when A-Rod opted out of the final three years of his contract -- despite team comments indicating he had burned his bridges by opting out.

But any such deal can't take place with Boras at the table, a Yankee source said, according to the report.

"We will not negotiate with Scott Boras," the source told the Daily News. "He cannot be in the room."

Boras, regarded in some circles as the most powerful man in baseball, has been A-Rod's agent since he was a teenager.

The Daily News also reported that Rodriguez recently approached the Yankees about a return through a third party, and that the team wanted person-to-person talks between A-Rod and Hal and Hank Steinbrenner.

The New York Post said Hal Steinbrenner was non-committal when asked Tuesday if A-Rod's return was possible.

"Whether something did happen or not, I am not going to comment on that situation," he said, according to the Post.

Rodriguez opted out of the final three years and $81 million of his contract on Oct. 28. The Yankees, had earlier pledged they would not deal with him as a free agent if he opted out and made good on their word, with Hal Steinbrenner saying "I don't want anybody on my team that doesn't want to be a Yankee."

Later, it was reported Boras had set a minimum salary floor of $350 million for the team to start talking with its former All-Star third baseman.
 
Negotiations have just restarted with the Yankees a deal isnt in the works yet, and any deal made must be between the Steinbrenners and A-ROD

I would love if he signed that, had he just signed the original contract extension I think he would have been on 300 over 10 years anyway

Just heard on ESPN news looks like a done deal, haha eat that Scott Boras
 
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