A Rod to Miami?

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On a one-year deal, he's probably worth $12-15 million right now and trending downward. But on a five-year commitment, you want a discount, and it's really only worthwhile if you are an AL team that needs a part-time 3b part-time DH.

He's got $114 million left, plus the HR bonuses. I'd need the Yankees to pick up $84 million of that plus the bonuses before I even think about it.

 

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When his defense sucks, he can't stay healthy and he can't play in the field full-time, it's pretty average.

The average MLB 3b this season his .266 with a .327 and 18 HRs/600 PAs. So A-Rod's offense wasn't that much better than average for 3b, and that was in a good hitter's park.

 

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A Rod would be perfect for The Dodgers as now constituted. Donnie Baseball could help him through his downward spiral.

 

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And he is making 20 mil for those numbers.

 

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I said it on another thread but the HR bonuses after he passes Mays won't be an issue with the way he is going.

I'd be intrigued by an A-Rod to the Dodgers for Andre Either swap. The money is almost equal -- 98 mil to 114 mil (not counting the bonuses) and by the end it is virtually dollar for dollar (17.5 mil to 20 mil in year 5).

Eithier replaces Swisher in right and the Dodgers don't have that crazy logjam coming in the outfield.

 

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Actually it's worse. He got 29 mil for 2012.

 

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Agree completely. I always think back to George Brett in Game 3 of the 1985 ALCS when the Royals were down 0-2 and he just put the team on his back and carried them in that game. Jeter has done that. Schilling did that. There are others as well... For a player who has put up the stats that A-Rod has, he never inspires any confidence in the postseason.

 

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The Dodgers would be better off making Ethier a left-handed third baseman than they would be trading him for A-Rod.

 

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That's probably true, but paying Either 17.5 mil for the final two years of that deal doesn't make a lot of sense considering the money they are paying/will have to pay to others on the roster.

 

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The Marlins should take him. Get that average attendance up to 7,400.

 

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Jeter, a year older than A-Rod, stank up the joint the last two years hitting well off his career average. This year he bounces back and hits .316. It happens.

A-Rod might bounce back, too.

 

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Yet another so-called baseball fan who just turned off the entire 2009 playoffs and never bothered to check what happened.

It's all about the story for some people, no matter the truth. If they can fit things into a story, that story must be true, especially if it's a story they like.

The Kansas City pitching staff that held Toronto to 2.6 runs per game in the final five games of that series might want some credit, but that wouldn't fit the "Brett carried them" story.