[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Without pay: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/arbitrator-rules-alex-rodriguez-should-be-suspended-for-2014-season-for-ped-use-164637215.html

As a rule, major league (NFL, NHL, NBA) suspensions are without pay, but otherwise the contract remains in force, in other words, he is not a free agent, cannot play in Japan or whatever, during that period.

[morphing libertarian]

I was talking about the two years after that if the yanks want to dump him