Thoughts on ARod:
He's maybe the best player in baseball today...
but is he worth $28M a year? Is he even worth what he was being paid, $25M?
my understanding is that boras is trying to claim that ARod will help revenues. I'm not sure that applies to the Sox. Fenway already sells out. Sox get huge #'s seeing them on the road. ARod is supposed to what.. make NESN more desirable?
ARod has been about as good a hitter as Ortiz the last 4 years (if you just take the OPS+ for each of them and average it, you get 154 for ARod and 159 for Papi). Is the fact that he's a 3B worth $15M? Clearly not.
More and more, I think either Boras completed screwed up or ARod just wanted out of NY. I think that by opting out, ARod may well have cost himself money.
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