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Baseball Musings
November 02, 2007
LA Alex

I just received a third-hand tip that Alex Rodriguez is ready to sign with the LA Dodgers.

At 9AM (Pacific time) Rodriguez's management was grabbing an early brunch with friends, one person in the party being an undisclosed high ranking MLB official, in Los Angeles. At this brunch terms of Rodriguez's soon to be signed "5 year contract" we're (sic) discussed in detail.

Our source in the brunch party "overheard" that Rodriguez will take a small pay cut, in relation to his actual market value which was said to be estimated at "$33 million dollars per year," because he has faith that Joe Torre will bring the team to the World Series with in the length of his new managerial contract.

Please take this with a huge grain of salt.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:46 PM | Free Agents | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Hardest thing to believe is that Scott would have Alex signing early and not dragging this out at least past the winter meetings.

Posted by: Subhash Roy at November 2, 2007 03:14 PM

This sounds like complete BS. He wants 10 yrs $350 million from the Yankees but will sign with the Dodgers for 5 years? Not a chance. He's not signing for a while.

Posted by: Ben at November 2, 2007 03:42 PM

If Rodriguez really wants to overtake Bonds for career homers, Chavez Ravine ain't the place for him to do it. Not only 81 home games in an extreme pitcher's park, but 9 or 10 each in Frisco and Petco.

Posted by: DenverGregg at November 2, 2007 03:53 PM

So quickly? I just wonder if the Dodgers & Boras have been um, "not" talking to each other.

Posted by: rbj at November 2, 2007 04:08 PM

Chavez Ravine in recent years has not been an extreme pitcher's park in terms of home runs -- and the games in Frisco and Petco are balanced against games in AZ and Coors. After all, the man he would be chasing set the record in that division.

Posted by: Capybara at November 2, 2007 04:25 PM

I didn't think financial terms could be discussed with any free agent by any team other than his "current" team yet.

Posted by: dan at November 2, 2007 05:05 PM

SHENANIGANS!!

You can't discuss money with another team right now. If this got out, Boras would be banned from baseball and there's no way an MLB official would be anywhere near that brunch if money was being discussed.

Posted by: Rob G. at November 2, 2007 05:09 PM

According to Bill James handbook, while Dodger Stadium is a pitcher's park in terms of depressing total runs scored, it is actually a hitter's part in terms of hitting home runs, whereas AT&T Park has been a run neutral park for the past few years, but has always been depressing the home run rate for both right-hand and left-hand hitters, it has just been that it's effect on lefties has been much greater and more advertised because of Bonds performance there in spite of that.

Posted by: obsessivegiantscompulsive at November 2, 2007 06:34 PM

You can't talk about money until November 12. This is clearly bogus, and I don't really see any reason to publish it at all.

Posted by: Vegas Watch at November 2, 2007 06:44 PM

We had a discussion of this at River Ave. Blues earlier today. It's basically a load of bunk, I think. Some kid in his dorm room at Seton Hall knows that the Dodgers AND Scott Boras AND Alex Rodriguez have violated baseball's tampering rules? Gimme a break. None of the baseball-related parties are that clueless.

Posted by: Ben K. at November 2, 2007 11:34 PM

Nice rumor, even better source, Pinto. Seriously, why did you even bother posting this?

Posted by: Rick at November 3, 2007 04:00 AM

Oh and just for your information, if there is an obvious typo or minor grammatical error where you are reasonably sure that is not what the author meant to write, you can just correct it in your quote without adding (sic). All that does is give your post an air of superiority, and to be honest you were really digging deep in the mud on this one.

Posted by: Rick at November 3, 2007 04:05 AM
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