Re: It could still happen....
- From: "Magnus, Robot Fighter" <Me@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:39:59 -0600
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:27:09 -0500, "Soon2B27WS"
<ShockmanNOSPAM85@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last week, the Yankees called Alex Rodriguez's bluff. Now it is time for
A-Rod to return the favor.
As general manager Brian Cashman promised all season long, the Yankees held
to their refusal to negotiate with Rodriguez and his agent, Scott Boras, if
A-Rod opted out of his contract, which he most famously did.
Now, as a means of salvaging some compensation in the form of two draft
picks, the Yankees plan to offer Rodriguez arbitration, fully expecting him
to reject it.
He should not. In fact, he and Boras should leap at the offer.
If it is, as Boras insists, really all about the client, then he has no
other choice. Unless he has a deal sewed up for the kind of money he
envisioned for A-Rod when he wrote the opt-out clause into his original
10-year, $252-million contract with the Rangers, this is a win-win for
everyone involved.
Accept the chance to bring Rodriguez's case to the attention of an
arbitrator and Boras assures him of two things: the highest single-season
salary in the history of sports, and a chance to do this free-agent thing
again next year, only correctly.
For the Yankees, it fills their third-base vacancy for 2008. For Rodriguez,
it gives him his best opportunity to achieve the one goal that has eluded
him: winning a World Series. And for Boras, it allows some measure of
face-saving while also buying time to line up more suitors, most notably the
Cubs, for next year's offseason.
"I'd be very happy if he did that," Cashman told me yesterday.
You talk to Cashman?
.
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