News: A-Rod is a Free Agent
According to the Associated Press, Alex Rodriguez has told the 
Yankees he will opt out of his current contract and become a free-agent.
Yesterday, the Daily News reported that the Yankees planned to offer Rodriguez a five-year contract extension worth roughly $140 million.
…the buzz from baseball has long been that if a-rod hits the open market, boras will seek a 10–year, $300 million deal for his client…so, considering his old contract, plus the extension offer from the Yankees, had he not opted out and accepted their proposal, he’d go in to next season with the Yankees playing with an eight-year, $236 million deal…he turned this down, suggesting he knows he can get more elsewhere…
In response, the Yankees issued the following statement through Hank Steinbrenner…
“It’s a shame, but we are all in agreement…If you don’t want to be a Yankee and paid what you’re being paid, we don’t want you, that’s the bottom line. You’d be hard-pressed to argue that point. If you don’t understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it’s pretty obvious.”
…wow…we don’t want you…i love it…they really are the Hankees now, aren’t they…good luck with that…
…like most poeple, i believe a-rod and his agent, Scott Boras, already have an idea about where he will be playing the rest of his career and how much money he’ll be getting…hi, JD Drew…
In other words, like Rosenthal recently wrote at FOXSports.com…
“Boras doesn’t act on impulse…The more serious concern for baseball is the possibility that Boras already has shopped A-Rod to other clubs, winking and nodding if not outright tampering…When baseball gets done with the Mitchell investigation, perhaps it can start another one.”
In the Journal News, Yankees beat writer Peter Abraham lists the Mets, Red Sox, Cubs, Giants, Dodgers and White Sox among Rodriguez’s potential suitors.
