A Rod to Miami?

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and are in their primes. AROD is broken down shell of his former self.

 

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At least he's up there taken hacks and trying. If there were the NBA, he'd fake a hammy and sit on the bench.

 

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I'm not so sure that's true. He is still going to eat a roster spot even if it is for a minimal number of innings/ABs.

 

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How much (if at all) do you increase A-Rod's future mileage by taking away his glove and making him your DH the rest of his career?

 

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And as I've mentioned before, I don't think it's that easy for them to just pay a huge portion of the deal. I can't recall the exact rules, but I don't think they make it very easy to eat money more than a couple of years down the line.

 

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That's kind of what I expect to happen. Maybe not next season, but soon...

 

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Rick, have the rules changed? Because the Rockies ate something like $50 million of Hampton's contract, and even the Rangers ended up paying something like $40 million a year for the four years they had Rodriguez after the money they agreed to throw in to move him.

 

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Excellent question. ARod is not washed up and name me a team in MLB that he wouldn't start for.

 

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I think they might have changed with the new CBA. I only think so because I remember hearing that the Cubs were having trouble with a Soriano trade because of it and would have an easier time moving him with only two years left on his deal.

 

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In the National League?

Mets, Padres, Brewers, Cardinals, Padres for sure, a couple of others are borderline. And this is all assuming he can physically handle playing the field all season.

Not quite as well-versed in the AL.

 

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Any MLB team that doesn't want to spend $100 million for a fragile 37-year-old infielder whose numbers have been falling off a cliff for the last five years?

Or is this a trick question?

 

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For instance, two years ago, the Rangers still owed Rodriguez close to $24 million. Although I guess that could be entirely deferred money, which would only increase the Yankees financial burden and I can't imagine they'd agree to it in this case, seeing how the Mets are still paying Bobby Bonilla out the ass and will be for another 10 years.

http://blogs.wSportsJournalists.com/bankruptcy/2010/05/24/texas-rangers-owe-alex-rodriguez-249-million/

This Murray Chass article about Hampton does mention something about the rules saying you can usually only include $1 million in trades to balance things out, but that Selig granted an exception to the Marlins/Braves/Rockies. It's still a little unclear how much of the $120 million the Rockies ended up paying him, and how much came from the Braves/Marlines though.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/sports/baseball-all-benefit-in-trade-braves-and-hampton-most-of-all.html?ref=mikehampton

Overall, though, baseball just doesn't run on this kind of stupidity anymore, where teams are willing to take on high-priced vets and eat a ton of a salary (other than the Dodgers) in part because teams like the Cubs and Rangers aren't run by morons anymore, the Angels are maxed out and aren't going to make a Vernon Wells mistake again, and the Mets are bankrupt.