Yanks to offer a raise to A-Rod

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sources: Yankees expected to make record-setting offer to A-Rod

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By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

The New York Yankees have asked to meet with third baseman Alex
Rodriguez, and if and when they get that meeting, league sources
indicate the team is prepared to make him an offer that will exceed,
in average salary, the $27 million per year that he is scheduled to
make over the next three seasons -- and A-Rod would be in line to set
yet another salary benchmark.


The offer could be for something in the range of five years -- beyond
the three years Rodriguez is already under contract for, from 2008-10
-- and perhaps $30 million a year. The highest per-workday salary
earned to date is the $28 million Roger Clemens received, in prorated
salary, for a little less than four months of work this season.

If the Yankees' extension offer is for something in the range of $150
million, over five years, then Rodriguez would be owed about $230
million over the next eight seasons.

It is unclear if the Yankees will get the meeting with the All-Star
third baseman that they've requested. Rodriguez, 32, must inform the
Yankees within 10 days of the conclusion of the World Series whether
he will opt out of the last three years of his current contract.
Yankees executives, from Hank Steinbrenner to team president Randy
Levine to general manager Brian Cashman, have stated repeatedly that
if Rodriguez opts out of the contract, they will not participate in
any more bidding for the third baseman. If Rodriguez opts out of his
current contract, the Yankees would lose $21.3 million in subsidy from
the Texas Rangers, the team that signed Rodriguez to his current $252
million deal after the 2000 season.

Some executives are convinced that no other team will come close to
the enormous extension offer the Yankees intend to make, and rival
agents and executives are reading the steady stream of public
negotiation rhetoric from agent Scott Boras as a bluff. But some
officials cite Boras's history of taking his clients into free agency,
and say they think Rodriguez will leave the Yankees.

Either way, it is the Yankees' intention to pay Rodriguez well, with a
record-setting salary.

Buster Olney is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine.

On Oct 27, 2:59 pm, Zoolander <j....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Saturday, October 27, 2007
> Sources: Yankees expected to make record-setting offer to A-Rod
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----
> By Buster Olney
> ESPN The Magazine
>
> The New York Yankees have asked to meet with third baseman Alex
> Rodriguez, and if and when they get that meeting, league sources
> indicate the team is prepared to make him an offer that will exceed,
> in average salary, the $27 million per year that he is scheduled to
> make over the next three seasons -- and A-Rod would be in line to set
> yet another salary benchmark.
>
> The offer could be for something in the range of five years -- beyond
> the three years Rodriguez is already under contract for, from 2008-10
> -- and perhaps $30 million a year. The highest per-workday salary
> earned to date is the $28 million Roger Clemens received, in prorated
> salary, for a little less than four months of work this season.
>
> If the Yankees' extension offer is for something in the range of $150
> million, over five years, then Rodriguez would be owed about $230
> million over the next eight seasons.
>
> It is unclear if the Yankees will get the meeting with the All-Star
> third baseman that they've requested. Rodriguez, 32, must inform the
> Yankees within 10 days of the conclusion of the World Series whether
> he will opt out of the last three years of his current contract.
> Yankees executives, from Hank Steinbrenner to team president Randy
> Levine to general manager Brian Cashman, have stated repeatedly that
> if Rodriguez opts out of the contract, they will not participate in
> any more bidding for the third baseman. If Rodriguez opts out of his
> current contract, the Yankees would lose $21.3 million in subsidy from
> the Texas Rangers, the team that signed Rodriguez to his current $252
> million deal after the 2000 season.
>
> Some executives are convinced that no other team will come close to
> the enormous extension offer the Yankees intend to make, and rival
> agents and executives are reading the steady stream of public
> negotiation rhetoric from agent Scott Boras as a bluff. But some
> officials cite Boras's history of taking his clients into free agency,
> and say they think Rodriguez will leave the Yankees.
>
> Either way, it is the Yankees' intention to pay Rodriguez well, with a
> record-setting salary.
>
> Buster Olney is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine.

Whew, I was afraid he would leave NY and then help NY out by not
having such a bust in the playoffs on their team.