It seems that Alex Rodriguez’s ticket out of the Bronx may not be booked after all:
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez spoke with the Yankees on Wednesday, telling them he wanted to explore whether he could work out a deal to return to New York.
Members of the Steinbrenner family and top team officials participated in the discussion, according to a person familiar with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because the club didn’t make any announcement.
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The Yankees were approached by a third-party intermediary several days ago who said Rodriguez wanted to speak with the Steinbrenners, and the team at first wondered whether the message was serious. Before Rodriguez terminated his record $252 million, 10-year contract on Oct. 28, Boras told the Yankees they would have to make a $350 million offer to get a meeting with the third baseman.
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Rodriguez told the Yankees he understood what he would have to do if he wanted to rejoin the team: Make up for the subsidy from Texas that New York lost what he opted out.
Very, very interesting.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Seems that A-Rod may have overestimated his market value and now might get burned for having gone free agent, thus losing the TX subsidy. I’m sure it didn’t endear him to Yanks fans with him telling everyone around that he’d love to play for the Sox. Of course, the Sox really don’t want anything to do with him.