Talk about a development. Forget about the fact that the A-Rod wants to come back and play for the Yankees. This is the Steinbrenners versus Scott Boras and it’s looking like the Steinbrenners might pull this off. A-Rod has said he’d like to come back to the Yankees and it looks like A-Rod will have to put the $21 million that the Rangers would have had to pay had he stuck with his current contract. At first they made it sound like they wanted Boras out of the negotiations but they’re now saying they don’t care because he has to understand how far the Yankees are willing to go.
I guess I have mixed feelings about A-Rod. I had pretty much wrote him off and had moved on. Now he’s back and while I should be happy, I’m cautiously optimistic about getting my hopes up.
***UPDATE***
It looks like A-Rod is close to signing and the price tag is going to be $290 million. The story didn’t say how long that’d be, just that’s it a multi-year contract.
