This is sort of 'the sane choice'. Choose the guy who played in the organization in a World Series winning team, who has managed and won a manager of the year award, who is an ex-catcher who understands the nuances of things, who has an engineering degree so is not a complete stranger to say, basic statistics which is what is used in sabermetric analysis.Good choice, says Rob Neyer.
Keith Law essentially agrees.
Boras Spins It
...more like 'Nanook Rubs It'. As in rubbing the doggie doo into the eyes of the Yankee brass. Mar-jur-ine!!
Super Agent to A-Rod Scott Boras is spinning some lines (on whatever it is that they spin lines upon up there) essentially saying that the door remains open for the Yankees to negotiate with A-Rod as a FA. He says he doesn't understand why the Yankees don't view A-Rod the same way as they view Posada, Rivera and Pettitte.
The Yankees were willing to offer around $240million for 8 years. It's overpaying by a significant bit. But worse still, the Yankees are going to pay a luxury tax on any an every dollar they spend on A-Rod. So an 8year $240million contract is actually going to be more like $300million to the Yankees whereas another club below the threshold could sign A-Rod for the same money and not pat extra. This is why the Texas Rangers subsidy was crucial in the discussions, and why the Yankees would have their feathers ruffled by A-Rod opting out without giving them an opportunity to at least make an offer.
Boras on the other hand thinks that Free Agency is the best thing a player can have; so A-Rod going to the well again to see if there's any more money in the well, makes total sense if you understand Boras' logic. However, he can't really be serious when the Yankee brass bristle and he innocently says, "but you should talk to him now that he's a Free Agent." Why would the Yankees enjoy paying more to purchase the same thing and take that as good faith negotiation?
The Yankees will offer arbitration to A-Rod, because they definitely want the compensation top-half first round draft next year. maybe they'll find another Jeter there.
There is of course the remote (as in really remote) possibility that there isn't a larger deal waiting out there for A-Rod in which case he may take the arbitration and stay in pinstripes. Boras has pulled this stunt before. To be honest, I wouldn't really want to see this scenario take place - because I'm over A-Rod opting out already - but it's now on the cards.
Meanwhile Rivera Does Talk
Mo and his agent Fernando Cuza on the other hand have spoken to the Yankees.
New manager Joe Girardi is believed to have taken part in the meeting, which took place at Legends Field - not long after Girardi formally agreed to his own three-year contract.There you go.
Brian Cashman flew in from New York for the meeting with Rivera and his agent.
Rivera's presence is certainly a positive, especially considering he emphatically stated in spring training that he planned to enter the free-agent market and view the Yankees as just another team.
But that's obviously not the case right now, as Rivera and the Yankees are taking advantage of their 15-day exclusive negotiating window. Other teams can start to negotiate beginning Nov. 12.
Asked if he was optimistic that a deal could be reached by that date, Cuza said: "It really depends on them, and that's a question I can't answer. We just wanted to see what each side had to say."
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