Sunday, February 17, 2008 |
Frankie's Last Season With The Angels?
Upon arriving for his first spring-training workout today, Rodriguez was asked if he's going into this season thinking it will be his last with the Angels.I can live with it either way."Yeah, probably," he said. "If they wanted me here, they would have done something a long time ago. In the meantime, I have to put that out of my head and do my job."
Rodriguez is quick to clarify when asked if he feels the Angels don't want him here.
"No, no, that's not what I'm saying, I don't want that in the paper," Rodriguez said. "It's just something I can't control."
Why hasn't he signed a long-term deal by now? "You're asking the wrong person," Rodriguez said, putting the onus on the team.
But the Angels tried to secure Rodriguez to multi-year deals after 2005 and 2006, and they couldn't agree to terms. The 26-year-old right-hander signed one-year contracts both winters.
The Angels made another offer, believed to be in the three-year, $34-million range, after last season. Rodriguez turned it down -- he's apparently looking for something closer to Mariano Rivera's deal (three years, $45 million) -- and the Angels pulled it off the table.
"We made what we thought was a fair offer, and it wasn't accepted," Angels General Manager Tony Reagins said. "They said they were probably going year to year, which, to me, means they're going to explore their opportunities."
it's talk. it's posturing. it's Spring Training. it's negotiation. that's all it is.
The Times needs a story to pump out each day and needs to sell its fishwrap. that's my take.
didn't the Yankees have a potential FA 3B a year ago at this time and didn't the speculation in the baseball world about his destiny far exceed the discussions on Iraq, the 2008 election, and the Chinese economy combined? He made more headlines the night the Wrold Series was won than the game itself.
And now when all is said and done, look who's starting this season at 3B for the Yanks.
I may join you two a year from now with the same descriptives as 'baffling' and 'disease' and maybe even throw in a few of my own choice words, but this isn't a 'news' story right now.
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