The Yanks owe him $61M over the next three season. If they offered to pick $31M - leaving the Reds $30M ($10M per season) - you had a clean bill of health from the medics and your baseball minds worked him out with full thumbs up. Would you deal a pitcher for him?
I wouldn't, I'd shoot the cancer before he got a chance to walk through the clubhouse door (even if it was as a janitor). Just wanted to see if anyone else would roll the dice?
Not a chance in hell.
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Anyone who lets The Yankees get out of paying the full amount of that contract should be permanently banned from baseball.
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I remember I liked the idea of it back in like 2011 or so when he was a few years younger and still an .800+ OPS bat. Now, absolutely not.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Where would he play?
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
Bumstead (10-13-2014)
Well, if you want me to play Devil's advocate, I would play the Devil at 3B and move Frazier to left.
Personally, I think a return at 39 after 2 major hip surgeries and a year of rust, will be very difficult. IMO, next spring will not be kind to ARod, and the insurance policy will be cashed. For the Yankees, a dream come true amid this nightmare.
He belongs with the yankees.
Go Gators!
blumj (10-13-2014)
This is perhaps the easiest question I have ever answered: No. Nope. Nein. No way. NO!
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
blumj (10-13-2014)
I think that MLB did everything possible to get the Yankees out of this situation, So I think that the Yankees, Bud and A Rod deserve each other. So,no I don't think that I would take him for free.
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Would his mean he'd go into the HOF as a Red?
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
I was going to propose this follow up: If the Yankees paid his whole salary and were willing to trade him for Schumaker would you do it? I'd still say no.
The biggest reason that I wouldn't want him is because of fan revolt over the HGH, But I think that the same fans would be willing to take others that did the same thing. I still think that A-Rod and the Yankees are a good match.
HUBBA A man who knows everything,just can't remember it all at one time.
Bobby wants to come back. Junior joked with Trout if he took batting practice the Angels would put him in the lineup ...."it doesn't take long to warm up a Maserati"
Arod
Junior
Bonds
99% of all numbers only tell 33% of the story so when looking at the numbers remember that numbers is plural...
If the Yankees picked up $37M AND he had no qualms about playing LF, then I'd do it. That's less per year than the Reds paid to Ludwick.
He'd have to pass the most rigorous physical in history though.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Crumbley (10-13-2014)
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