A Rod to Miami?

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My point is that he is still a MLB caliber player.

 

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For now. Right now, he's essentially an average 3b and DH, and he might not be able to play the field full time. He's dangling very close to "bench player" status.

 

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You have the reasoning powers of a small child. Why I'm responding to this, I don't even know. But you do realize, right, that there is no magical fairyland where Rodriguez can play third base for a team just for next year, right? If you want him, now, you have to also want him a age 41 to the tune of $30 million per.

 

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Don't care how much longer A-Rod lasts, but I hope he's got at least one more giant diva-boy embarrassment left in the tank. Something in the Marv Albert vein would be very nice.

 

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If I were Cashman, I'd send A-Rod every winter to the Swiss clinic where they do Keith Richards' blood replacement therapies. Then DH him and treat him like a veal every season for the rest of his career.

 

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I'm pretty sure he already did the "visit Kobe's doctor in Germany" thing on his hip. But yeah, he should be their full-time, gluten-free, yoga-in-the-tunnel-in-between-at-bats DH from the start of spring training to the end of the year.

 

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The Yankees should be able to do better at DH than a .783 OPS.

 

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It does seem absolutely insane that a 37-year-old player still has that much guaranteed money coming... I guess it pays to become a free agent right after winning the MVP.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml#contracts

Apparently, he's 13 HR away from receiving a shitload in marketing bonuses. Not entirely sure if that's included in the 10-year $275 mil deal or if that's in addition to it...

Just crazy...

 

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Dusty Baker and Tsuyoshi Shinjo disagree.

 

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The bonuses aren't included.

He got $265 million in guaranteed salaries (which was frontloaded, which makes it more valuable in pure financial terms than a lot of the backloaded deals you see), plus a $10 million signing bonus spread out over five years. That's the $275 million.

He gets another $6 million for home runs No. 660, 714, 755, 762 and 763. Right now, I'd say only the first one looks like a sure thing, with the second one probable and the rest pretty iffy.

 

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Agreed, but the money they've spent is a sunk cost. They need to maximize their value for it somewhere. And maybe if he's not grinding his way through eight innings, diving for balls he can't possible reach anymore, he can bump that to .820, which is what it was two years ago when he only played 99 games.

 

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If DHing and resting him bring him back 10 or 15% closer to his lifetime .945 - say .850* - is it worth it?


*Or even DD's .820