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Pay-Rod? The top 10 teams A-Rod could be on for a bargain.
sportshubris.com — This article will dissect A-Rod ability to be a bargain with his current salary on a number of teams. Hopefully after reading you ’ll be able to determine whether or not his salary is an albatross or actually justified.
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- Patrikc325, on 03/31/2008, -6/+2Baseball been very very good to me :)
- digginDigs, on 03/31/2008, -21/+2Billionaire's paying Millionaire's, Wow how interesting, and that effects me how?
- bohemianowl, on 03/31/2008, -5/+5it affects you by distracting you from the real issues.
- suzywang3000, on 03/31/2008, -16/+3gay-rod did steroids AND hit on Canseco's wife.
- staxofmax, on 03/31/2008, -11/+5Baseball needs more manliness and facial hair, and less over-payed preening juiced up douchebags. Baseball just isn't what it used to be. I miss Rod Beck. :(
- KevinRWright, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4Uh, rod beck died at 38, with strong evidence backing up claims that he used steroids. I know he doesn't look the part of your typical user, but when your heart gives out at 38 you have to question what he was doing wrong.
- staxofmax, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Do you think his death had anything to do with all the cocaine found in his home and bedroom after he was found dead, or the years of copious alcohol consumption? Where exactly is the strong evidence of steroid usage?
- KevinRWright, on 03/31/2008, -2/+3So, you're saying steroids are condemnable, but it's ok to greave a coked up alcoholic? Of the hundreds of thousands retired and deceased baseball players, this is who you miss?
- staxofmax, on 03/31/2008, -4/+1Where exactly do I condemn steroid use, or praise his substance abuse? Way to put words in my mouth, *****.
All I'm saying is that, in a sports world filled with P.C. hypocrites, it was nice to have at least one player out there that would share some beers with his fans outside his trailer in the ballpark parking lot, and did not attempt to sanitize his personality and appearance to make himself more appealing to the fanbase. - KevinRWright, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3"less over-payed preening juiced up douchebags."
condemning statement - johndwalsh7, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Different sport, but John Daly channels his inner Rod Beck daily.
Also, a large portion of the Red Sox spent the night they won the ALCS celebrating at Game On, a bar that is on the outside of Fenway. Pedroia & Youkilis took over bartending duties and were dishing out free drinks. That's a whole team of players that shared beers with their fans, just not outside their trailer. In 2004, a few of them went to another bar in the Fenway Park area and pulled the same stunt.
- KevinRWright, on 03/31/2008, -2/+3So, you're saying steroids are condemnable, but it's ok to greave a coked up alcoholic? Of the hundreds of thousands retired and deceased baseball players, this is who you miss?
- staxofmax, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Do you think his death had anything to do with all the cocaine found in his home and bedroom after he was found dead, or the years of copious alcohol consumption? Where exactly is the strong evidence of steroid usage?
- TheDude0520, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3more facial hair? Isn't Youk's enough for the entire AL?
- JerseyFrost, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I agree dude :p
- Ender008, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1I miss the old Johnny Damon.
- KevinRWright, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4Uh, rod beck died at 38, with strong evidence backing up claims that he used steroids. I know he doesn't look the part of your typical user, but when your heart gives out at 38 you have to question what he was doing wrong.
- pwdrskier, on 03/31/2008, -12/+3a-rod sucks
- mbonzo531, on 03/31/2008, -0/+30I love how every sports or other entertainment articles get all the "What does this have to do with me" and "This is stupid, pay attention to darfur!" comments. This is digg and all articles are welcome, please stop bitching and if you don't like sports or entertainment news then block them in your profile.
/rant over- mal1964, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4What does your comment have to do with me.
Sarcasm - cryptomystic, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Best comment I read all day.
- mal1964, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4What does your comment have to do with me.
- Bannatys, on 03/31/2008, -7/+0Thanks !
- tomjm5000, on 03/31/2008, -2/+7The author really does seem to ignore that Arod is a disaster when it comes to actually winning championships. Even the yankees can't win with him.
- ancalagon73, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3Arod has nothing to do with the Yanks not winning a series. It has all to do with ***** pitching and the team not producing when they need to.
- brainboy77, on 03/31/2008, -3/+6the yankees didn't win because we had bad pitching and no one scored any runs in the playoffs. this is our year. joba is our savior.
- jmas9, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7Assuming they can keep the midges away this time.
- serif69, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I'm as big a fan as the next guy, but Joba isn't going to do crap for our chances this year. That's what they said about Kevin Maas. And I am fully prepared for a Maas-era season.
- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -3/+3That is funny. Banking your entire season on a guy with 2 months experience in the majors! Because no rookie has EVER had a great late season call up and then struggled mightily once the teams got their second look at him. EVER.
- dan222555, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1You ignore the fact that Joba's stuff is as nasty as anyone's in the league....any scout would agree with that.
- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -3/+2Yeah...because NO pitcher has ever had "nasty" stuff in the minors, and been highly touted coming up. Ever.
I am not saying he is definitely going to suck, but to consider him the last piece of hte puzzle for the Yankees is ABSURD.- dan222555, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1"Yeah...because NO pitcher has ever had "nasty" stuff in the minors"
How about the 34 strikeouts, 12 hits given up, and 0.38 era in 24 innings pitched in the MAJORS? He's not the last piece of the puzzle, but going forward he is big piece of it. - bingobongony, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2dan...are you not even ***** READING my posts or are you just 12 years old? Like I have said..the minor league career record books are FILLED with guys who came up to the majors in August or September one year and had GREAT numbers, only to follow it up with mediocre (at best) numbers for the rest of their short career.
ESPECIALLY with a pitcher. (And especially with a reliever who never faces a battter more than once.) When a team has never seen a pitcher before, it is easier for that pitcher to do well. Once a team gets a second look at him (like, say, the Indians did in the playoffs) thngs can easily change. Again..itis clear you are 12 years old if you think that Joba is unique to baseball's history, or that every one before him has gone on to win multiple Cy Youngs, etc. Then again, I don't expect intelligent debates on baseball with Yankee fans. If Joba was a Twin, you would be talking about how lucky he was last year.
If the Yankees were as high on him as you are, there would be no idiotic "Joba rules", and he would be a starter. A guy who is a "Can't miss" and will lead the Yankees to glory would not be used as a set up man.
- dan222555, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1"Yeah...because NO pitcher has ever had "nasty" stuff in the minors"
- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -3/+2Yeah...because NO pitcher has ever had "nasty" stuff in the minors, and been highly touted coming up. Ever.
- dan222555, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1You ignore the fact that Joba's stuff is as nasty as anyone's in the league....any scout would agree with that.
- Qdub, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1Someone didn't care when they photoshopped those pictures....
- reqage, on 03/31/2008, -4/+2I love how players in all professional sports are insanely overpaid... MLB players at the top of the list considering they stand around most of the game.
- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5You mean considering you don't understand the game because you don't have an athletic bone in your body?
- ancalagon73, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Why should players get less money when the owners are raking in all the dough? They get paid that much because the owners know that they won't get the kind of money they do without them. Wish I had that kind of pull in my job. Sounds more like someone is jealous that they don't get paid that much.
- Misinformant, on 03/31/2008, -4/+1Or zero teams since he's already locked into a new contract.
What's the point of the article exactly?- barf314, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5Attempted justification of an overpaid individual by comparing a single player's stats against multiple players' stats resulting in inadvertent proof that the subject is overpaid.
- Misinformant, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Tough to make that claim when he overwhelmingly won MVP by a massive margin last season and in the drastically more compitetive league too, no less.
What about the overpaid players who don't even perform worth half their pricetag? *cough* Barry Zito - netant, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Speaking as a Yankee fan, I was quite happy to get A-Rod back. There were many idiot detractors, but they apparently couldn't see that the team had a gaping hole at 3rd base in defense and batting. A-Rod's VORP must be ridiculous.
What I really like about the article is that I didn't realize what a bargain the A-Rod deal was. Yes, it took two or three salaries to compensate for A-Rod's, but in most cases, those players were ZEROES. Combined, they didn't have the impact A-Rod has as a player; they were not earning their salaries either. If I were a GM on those teams, I probably would love to dump those contracts to grab A-Rod. It would make the team either a contender or a terror.
The only reservation, of course, is whether the contract will still retain its value in its the 10th year. Given the way the dollar is collapsing, perhaps A-Rod should have had built in escalator clauses for salary/performance in the league. In five years, he might make more money playing in Japan rather than the US.
- Misinformant, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Tough to make that claim when he overwhelmingly won MVP by a massive margin last season and in the drastically more compitetive league too, no less.
- barf314, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5Attempted justification of an overpaid individual by comparing a single player's stats against multiple players' stats resulting in inadvertent proof that the subject is overpaid.
- NightOwl4, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4i would love to see him in a Phillies Uniform
- habhi, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2i think I would just explode if a-rod was on the team in addition to our big three :D
- Phlyers, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Seconded, but it'll never happen. No need to tease yourself like that.
- AManOfLOP33, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4Very interesting article. I would take him and his salary in virtually all of these cases.
Quite sad this turned into a Rod Beck bashfest. The guy has more saves than any of you will ever have.- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Anyone with 1 save has more saves than any of us (including you) will ever have. What is your point?
- dafragsta, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Well, seeing as the percentage of pitchers in any given demographic where the common thread is not "baseball player, or pitcher" is going to be extremely low, and I bet pitchers make up at most .001% of the population as a whole, so you're probably right on that one.
- ferbs027, on 03/31/2008, -4/+1This article is worthless. The author cherry-picked the worst contracts on each team and substituted them with A-Rod. That's very easy to do in hindsight. Obviously if those teams knew how those players would pan out over the life of their contract they'd opt for A-Rod instead.
- bingobongony, on 03/31/2008, -4/+2It neer fails...any site that is supposed an expert site on one issue (whether it be men's issues, or here with sports) are always the dumbest, LEAST informative or interesting sites regarding that topic.
I guess that is why they write blogs rather than getting REAL jobs in sports journalist. Reaing sportshubris makes it perfectly clear why the Mavericks didn't want to allow bloggers into their locker room.- johndwalsh7, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2We're just getting our opinions and analysis of sports out there for anyone to read. If you don't agree with us, well, boo-freaking-ho. No one held a gun to your head and made you read it. Sports journalism's an incredibly hard field to get into and especially hard to succeed in; and seeing that we have other jobs and talents, and the fact that we only post things from time to time, clearly it's just a hobby for us, not a career choice. Next time why don't you write something informative on why our site is one of the "dumbest, LEAST informative or interesting sites regarding that topic."
And at least we check our spelling.
- johndwalsh7, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2We're just getting our opinions and analysis of sports out there for anyone to read. If you don't agree with us, well, boo-freaking-ho. No one held a gun to your head and made you read it. Sports journalism's an incredibly hard field to get into and especially hard to succeed in; and seeing that we have other jobs and talents, and the fact that we only post things from time to time, clearly it's just a hobby for us, not a career choice. Next time why don't you write something informative on why our site is one of the "dumbest, LEAST informative or interesting sites regarding that topic."
- nobleexperiment, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2This article is too anecdotal. Barry Bonds almost gets A-Rod yearly salaries and they fill in the seats so where's his props in marketing. This article picks on A-Rod's salaries versus the top paying teams of other MLB teams salaries, yet never looks at A-Rod "The Brand" with respect to other MLB team's revenues when the Yankees roll to town.
The thing is that's what A-Rod and other popular players (like Reggie Jackson, Joe Carter, David Ortiz) do in baseball. He like many who hate him or like him, fill up the seats of baseball stadiums while we're all chugging in our beers on every inning. In other words, he sells. He sells more when the Yankess (God-Forbid) Win the World Series.
... and go Padres. A-Rod would probrably buy the franchise with his salary >( - TexanRudeBoy, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Mirror?
- smacksaw, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8It's funny - the M's had a chance to sign Johnson, Griffey and A-Rod to long-term deals in the late 90's and blew it. My friend who golfed with Randy Johnson said that Randy had wanted a 4-year, $36m deal, Griffey wanted 8@$96m and A-Rod was looking 10/$80m. Randy wouldn't stay unless they locked up the other guys - so he ended up in Houston. Griffey demanded more money than A-Rod, but A-Rod wanted more than Griffey. No one from Japan wanted to make the move or knew how to solve the situation, so it all fell apart.
Suffice it to say, both Griffey and A-Rod would be at the end of their contracts right about now, and it turns out Johnson really only had about 5 good years left in him anyway.
If it's any consolation to Seattle fans, their suckitude pretty much guaranteed a new stadium. But imagine, they probably would have had Ichiro anyway. I could never be a Seattle sports fan. - FlyingPhoenix, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Go Cardinals! Opening Day baby!
- Forum, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I believe I speak for most Seattlites when I say,"He had his chance, and I don't want him here."
- cubuffs155, on 03/31/2008, -3/+1Too bad contracts in baseball are guaranteed. This article doesn't make much sense.
- sportscrzy33, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Waaaaaaaaaay too much money! MLB players are just getting played a ridiculous amounts of money nowadays. A-Rod is good, but he disappears in the post season, that alone should have dropped his enormous price tag.
- dan222555, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Good thing we have him for another 10 years...hopefully in that time he can bring a few more championships back to where they belong.
- secondfiddle, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1 27 million to play baseball, another example of whats wrong with America.
- masanook, on 04/02/2008, -0/+0interesting sport
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