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Yankees' A-Rod Still Decididng If He Will Return to Team
Alex Rodriguez is still determining whether he will opt out of his contract with the New York Yankees at the end of the season. The Yankees were eliminated Monday from the playoffs by the Cleveland Indians.
After the World Series, Rodriguez has 10 days to opt out of the final three years and $81 million of his contract. The Yankees would like to extend him before he hits the free agent market because the Texas Rangers are paying more than $20 million of Rodriguez's contract.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman would not speculate on if the Yankees would pursue Rodriguez if he opts out of his contract. Owner George Steinbrenner told the Bergen Record he thinks that the Yankees will re-sign Rodriguez.
"I love New York," Rodriguez said. "Again, for me, as a player, to come full circle in New York, it's the most comfortable I've felt and hopefully things work out."
Rodriguez' agent Scott Boras did not say what he would advise Rodriguez to do.
Boras, known as baseball's most shrewd agent, said he will tell prospective bidders that Rodriguez could play until he is 45 years old, which will allow him to not only become baseball's all-time home run king, but also the all-time hits leader.
If those accomplishments are within reach, Boras said he will argue that Rodriguez will be worth somewhere between a half-billion and a billion dollars over a decade to a team's regional sports network.
It's nearly impossible to quantify the relationship an individual player has to a regional sports network. The ratings for YES, the Yankees-owned regional sports network in the greater New York area, have climbed with Rodriguez on the team.
According to numbers provided by YES, ratings in 2003, the year prior to Rodriguez's arrival, were 3.2 for the season. In 2004 and 2005, A-Rod' first two season with New Tork, the ratings jumped to 4.6 and 4.5 respectively.
In 2006, YES ratings dipped to 4.3, but this season the numbers peaked at 4.7. There are countless factors for these ratings, including having marquee players. Rodriguez, of course, is not the only star on the Yankees.
Rodriguez currently has 518 home runs and 2,250 hits.
In the free agent book that Boras has planned, he will detail what Rodriguez has accomplished at 32.
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