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THE BA FT A LION Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Rodriguez traded to Yankees
By Ronald Blum
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — It’s a done
deal: Alex Rodriguez is a Yankee.
Commissioner Bud Selig
approved the record-setting
swap Monday, allowing the
reigning American League
MVP to be traded to New York
by the Texas Rangers.
“I’m pretty excited. This is a
big, big one,” Yankees owner
George Steinbrenner said.
“It ranks with when we
signed Reggie,” he said, a refer
ence to when slugger Reggie
Jackson joined the Yankees
before the 1977 season.
Texas will pay $67 million of
the $179 million left on
Rodriguez’s $252 million, 10-
year contract, the most cash
included in a trade in major
league history. The Rangers get
All-Star second baseman
Alfonso Soriano and a player to
be named — but they also will
pay Rodriguez through 2025.
“1 am very concerned about
the large amount of cash con
sideration involved in the
transaction, and the length of
time over which the cash is
being paid,” Selig said.
“I want to make it abundant
ly clear to all clubs that I will not
allow cash transfers of this mag
nitude to become the norm.
However, given the unique cir
cumstances, including the size,
length and complexity of Mr.
Rodriguez’s contract and the
quality of the talent moving in
both directions, I have decided
to approve the transaction.”
Rodriguez will move from
shortstop, a position at which
he’s been an All-Star seven
times, to third base, where he
will replace injured Aaron
Boone. The Yankees will keep
Derek Jeter at shortstop.
“Jeter is the captain. He is the
leader,” Steinbrenner said at the
team’s minor league complex in
Tampa, Fla.
Both Jeter and Yankees man
ager Joe Torre were expected to
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praised
Rodriguez’s decision to move
to third.
“I was very impressed. He’s
an outstanding young fellow.
He’ll be very big in New York,”
Steinbrenner said.
Rodriguez, who waived his
no-trade clause, was desperate
to play for a winner.
“I don’t think he ever
thought about playing another
position until the concept came
up,” Rodriguez’s agent, Scott
Boras, said Sunday. “He decid
ed it didn’t make a difference —
shortstop, third base, center
field. He wanted the opportunity
to play on a competitive team.”
The Rangers will wind up
paying $140 million for three
seasons with Rodriguez, an
average of $46.7 million annual
ly for three last-place finishes in
the AL West. The Yankees will
owe him $112 million over
seven years.
“Since the end of last season
we said we would not trade Alex
unless it made sense for our
organization,” Texas Rangers
general manager John Hart said.
“This deal is a win-win-win
situation for the Rangers, the
Yankees and Alex Rodriguez.
This trade is about flexibility.
We’ve traded the best player in
the game, and we’re getting
tremendous financial flexibility.”
Baseball’s biggest spenders
will raise their payroll to about
$190 million.
“The disparity is not healthy
for the sport,” Arizona
Diamondbacks owner Jerry
Colangelo said Sunday. “But
everyone runs their team the
way they see fit, and they did it
by the rules.”
Boras said the possibility of a
trade first came up last Monday
while he was talking to the
Yankees about another player.
Boras then called Rodriguez.
“I said, There may be an
opportunity. We have to talk
about your goals, about win
ning,’” Boras recalled telling
his client.
“He called me back
Tuesday and discussed it fur
ther and said, ’Why don’t you
call (Texas owner) Tom Hicks
and let him know we’re ready
to do that,”’ Boras said.
Trade talks began the follow
ing day, and the sides reached
the agreement Sunday.
The Yankees will pay
Rodriguez $15 million in each
of the next three seasons, $16
million each in 2007 and 2008,
$17 million in 2009 and $18
million in 2010, according to
contract information obtained
by the AP from player and man
agement sources.
In each of the first four
years, $1 million would be
deferred without interest, to be
paid in 2011.
The trade calls for Texas to
pay $43 million of Rodriguez’s
salary over the remaining seven
years. In addition, the Rangers
will pay the $24 million remain
ing in deferred money from the
original contract, with the inter
est rate lowered from 3 percent
to 1.75 percent.
All the deferred money owed
by Texas — $36 million, includ
ing salaries from 2001-03 —
will be converted to an assign
ment bonus, which makes the
money guaranteed against a
strike or lockout. The payout
schedule will be pushed back to
2016-25 from 2011-20.
In exchange for the alter
ations, which devalue the pre
sent-day value of the contract by
$5 million, Rodriguez will
receive a hotel suite on road
trips, have the right to link his
Web site to the Yankees’ site
and get a guarantee that the
deferred money won’t be wiped
out by a work stoppage.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Softball goes 2-3
in Phoenix
The No. 17 Texas A&M softball
team wrapped up the Fiesta
Bowl Tournament this past
weekend in Phoenix, Ariz., with a
2-3 record, including an 8-3 win
over No. 16 Oregon University.
A&M (5-3) dropped contests
with No. 2 Arizona and No. 5
Washington, and was no-hit by
No. 21 Fresno State in Bulldog
pitcher Jamie Southern’s third
perfect game of her career.
A&M head coach Jo Evans said
the weekend was a great oppor
tunity to develop as a team.
“I think it is a situation where
we continue to learn," Evans
said. ‘‘We had a great win
against Oregon."
Freshman pitcher Jill
Weynand pitched the Aggies to
their win over Oregon as well as
a 6-0 win over New Mexico.
A&M will return home to face
the University of Houston in a
doubleheader this Wednesday
at the Aggie Softball Complex.
First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
Baseball
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I think our guys will be better
the second time out. The hitters
will be better and learn some
(situational things).”
While the Bearkats are not
highly regarded by their peers -
they were picked to finish sev
enth in the Southland
Conference - the Aggies know
from experience that traveling
to Huntsville is no easy task.
“(Sam Houston State) will
be good. They always are,”
Johnson said. “And going over
there, we have a history of
struggling and having ball-
games over there that are really
tough, so I’m sure that they’ll
be waiting for us.”
With the history of a good
rivalry, both teams are anxious
to get out on the field and play.
“1 think our guys are up to
the challenge,” Gutzman said.
“We know there’s a program
with a great tradition corning in
here, but I think our guys are
always ready to go and certain
ly eager to get that first home
game underneath their belt.”
Patton
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wants to do,” Bobbie Patton
said. “If something happens,
then he has to support us and he
knows that.”
Patton said he had nights
where he would lie awake in
the summer pondering his deci
sion, but in the end, his love for
A&M’s baseball program and
for his new family, proved to
overcome the money that came
with his signature.
“It was difficult with the
money, but he just wanted to
come back so bad,” Bobbie
Patton said.
Now with the decision behind
him and sitting in the A&M club
house still wearing his No. 15
Aggie jersey, Patton is confident
he made the right call. A&M is
thankful that he stayed too.
“(San Diego) let me know
they wanted me bad,” Patton
said. “I didn’t want to have to
call coach Johnson and tell him
I had decided to go pro. I had
told the coaches that I was
going to come back, so I want
ed to stick to my word.”
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