Future Outlook: Alex
Rodriguez
What
can I say that hasn’t been said about Alex Rodriguez? Well how bout this, a career slash line of .299/.384/.558
puts him as one of the best in history, a career HR total of 654 put him in
reach of the highest HR total in history.
In his prime he was arguably the best player in the game. Not only that he is one of the best
defensive players in the game and the fact that he moved flawlessly from SS and
3B. So what does this mean for
Alex Rodriguez moving forward?
Absolutely nothing since his career is completely tainted by his own
choices.
I’m
not going to delve to deep into the workings of the entire situation other than
the details we know and what I feel this means for Rodriguez moving
forward. Alex Rodriguez was
suspended from all baseball activities for failing a drug test, which found 3
different types of banned substances in his blood. I mention this because its how he was originally suspended
211 games versus the 162 plus playoffs he is now suspended for. According to the Joint Drug Agreement
if a player is found with the same substance in his blood on a second test
after failing his first test it is considered to be 1 strike still. The chances that it’s still working
through his system are there and it’s a fair to the player. If a player is found with multiple
banned substances, as an example 3 like Rodriguez, each substance counts as 1
strike. In Rodriguez’s case that
ment he would have had a lifetime ban right there but the Union felt that was
unfair to him. That is why they
had the arbitration hearing to see if the 211 game was fair or not and arbiter
Fredric Horowitz he agreed that it wasn’t fully just and lowered it to a full
season and the playoffs. Rodriguez
is currently suing MLB and the MLBPA (Major League Baseball Players
Association) in a federal court.
What
does all this mean for the future of Alex Rodriguez? Well quite a lot, history has shown that federal courts
don’t tend to hear cases that have already been through an arbiter, in fact
about 95% get thrown out. If that
fails Rodriguez will be forced to miss the next season. This means the Yankees will not have to
pay his contract, which will free up roughly $24 million off the luxury
tax. As for his future that’s now
in limbo, the likely outcome from this is the Yankees will just buy Rodriguez’s
contract that they owe $61 million.
Once that’s done the real question becomes if a team wants to take on
Rodriguez and the circus that comes with him and that may very well be a no. That’s not to say that it won’t happen
but the odds are not in his favor.
Personally
speaking I think his career is pretty much at the end of its line and its
pathetic how it happened. He had
all the talent in the world and was gifted beyond measure and he threw it away
because he “wanted to be the only person in the 800 HR club” which is one of
the more selfish things I’ve ever heard.
He doesn’t care at all what his legacy is or his fans as long as he has
his money and his fame. The fact
that he used his money to try and make the problem go away (offering to send
his drug dealer to Columbia and buying his records from the company and
shredding them.) In the end he’ll
get what’s coming to him and its starting to catch up to him now.
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