Re: Olney: The Yanks fell short by 100mil
- From: roycigar <rstein@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:47:00 -0700
On Nov 2, 5:04 pm, BadgerBC <neilrichardson3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, now I am beginning to wonder if this wasn't a colossal blunder by
Boras. I still think there must've been some team (probably the
Angels) that promised a deal to their liking but this is ridiculous.
He'd take up 1/4 of a team's payroll even if it's the Halos, the Mets
or the Dodgers (assuming they'll go up close to the luxury tax
threshold).
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3091277
Sources: Yankees more than $100M short of entertaining A-Rod
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By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine
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.
I can see Anaheim making a serious run (in their minds, Vlad/Arod will
be the West Coast version of Papi/Manny), but not for $350M or even
$300M.....while they lust for him, it will give them a predominantly
RH hitting lineup (Cabrera, Vlad, Arod, Rivera, Kendrick, Napoli) --LH
Garrett Anderson's best years are behind him.
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