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| 23rd October, 2007 - 11:41 am | New York Times - The Yankees will soon confront Alex Rodriguez’s agent, Scott Boras, and the overriding issue is which side will back down first.
Neither side accepts the other’s premise. Boras does not seem to believe that the Yankees will remove themselves from negotiations if Rodriguez opts out of his contract and becomes a free agent. The Yankees are highly dubious that Boras can find a more lucrative contract than the one they plan to offer.
“Great decisions render artificial dynamics meaningless,” Boras said yesterday. It was an artful way of saying that he did not consider the Yankees’ deadline for signing Rodriguez to be legitimate.
The Yankees have insisted for months that their deadline to re-sign Rodriguez is his opt-out date, 10 days after the end of the World Series. If he becomes a free agent, his existing contract disappears, and the Yankees lose a $30 million subsidy from the Texas Rangers that covers part of his salaries from 2008-10. [READ] |
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