Will he be Hall of Fame worthy?
In his new role, Alex Rodriguez will be assigned to work with various players at all levels of the Yankees farm system, including many of the club’s top prospects. He will report directly to Hal Steinbrenner and offer instruction to players in conjunction with the Yankees Baseball Operations and Player Development Departments. As part of his wide-ranging duties, Rodriguez will provide the Yankees regular feedback and analysis regarding the club’s minor league system. Additionally, he will serve as a Guest Instructor during spring training in 2017.
Andrew Marchand
ESPN Senior Writer
What will he be instructing the young players?
Guess he knows he is unlikely to hit four more home runs the rest of the way.
The Yankees, who are pushing to playing younger players, are contractually obligated to pay Rodriguez the remainder of his $21 million salary for this season and the $21 million he is owed for 2017.
Likely they will buy out part or all of the final year of the contract. Good riddance.
The announcement probably comes along with a renegotiation of his contract. Maybe the Yankees halved his contract for next year. Savings = $10 million. Also, Alex will not get the $10 million bonus for hitting home run #700. Next bloated salary to address is CC Sabathia’s.
Yankees need to assemble and develop a younger version of the core 4. For all the multiple millions spent on A-Rod they got one WS win and a lot of headaches thrown in the mix.
“He will now be special advisor to the motor pool and groundskeepers.”
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Cheaters like A-Roid, Bonds, and Rose should not be admitted to the HOF during their lifetimes.
The big elbow pad has also inflated home run stats. Bonds and McGwire crowded the plate with their elbow pad hanging over the plate. Pitchers cannot pitch inside as the hitter will just take the pitch off the elbow pad and walk to first. Pitches on the outside corner are then right in the hitter’s sweet spot.
MLB needs to ban the elbow pad and not allow the automatic walk on a HBP when the hitter leans into the pitch. Hitters are supposed to make an effort to get out of the way. Can you imagine how many home runs Babe Ruth would have hit if he could have used these tactics? In Ruth’s day, the next pitch would have been a high inside fastball aimed the hitters head.
Sounds like both ARod and the Yankees can “save face” so to speak. ARod retires as a player, but still stays with the Yankee organization in another capacity.
So ARod still collects $20+ million for the last year of his player contract, but still does something for the Yankee organization to earn the money. ARod retiring as a player frees up a roster spot for one of the younger players the Yankees are trying to develop.
Sounds like a good settlement which everyone can claim to benefit from.
It’s hard to watch a star athlete decline. ARod declining reminds me a bit of watching Willie Mays in his last two seasons, after the Giants traded him to the Mets.
I was wondering what the Yankees were going to with him as he wore out his capacity.
As for the HOF, the thinking of baseball, especially a part controlled by writers and not realists, borders on the lines of stupidity. Here is a guy that lied about his cheating use of PEDs, how he got them, from who, got caught, spent a year out of the league due to punishment for his use of them after he attempted to hide it dishonestly, and he is being considered for the HOF? At the same time, Bonds was chased by the law for years until they found nothing on him other than guesses, after he became the single season and career home run leader, multiple gold gloves, one of four that reached the 40/40 club, and lead a couple of teams into post season and world series wins. The media is still berating him every chance they get. He isn’t in the hall. And he was investigated for years and they found nothing. They got Rodriguez dead to rights, and they are already coddling him. Just shows how far baseball has sunk from reality or morality.
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Paying him millions to just go the hell away.
The fact that ARod did not bat in today’s final Yankee Stadium appearance as a player tells you all you need to know about how bad ARod was treated today...how bad the Yankee fans were treated today.
nor Griffey...
payrod sacrificed his baseball soul for money, big money..
karma and steroids/HGH can be a bitch....
(on a side note, to tell you how dysfunctional the Seattle Mariners are, they had a nice, young payrod, when he was still a good guy, and Ken Griffey, and Randy Johnson and Edgar Martinez and STILL couldn't get to the WS)
Special adviser and instructor in what? How to beat drug tests?
