Report: A-Rod, Yankees agree on outline of $275 million, 10-year contract</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees have agreed to the outline of a record $275 million, 10-year contract, a deal that potentially would allow him to earn millions more if he sets the career home run record.</p> The amount of the guaranteed money was revealed by a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn't been finalized. A-Rod and his wife met Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., with brothers Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, but the parameters of the agreement were set in place last weekend.</p> "The meeting was a final get-together," Yankees senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner said. "He wanted to make sure myself and my brother knew that he was sincere and serious."</p> The Yankees still must draft the agreement with Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras. Asked whether the only remaining details were putting the deal on paper, Steinbrenner responded: "pretty much so."</p> Boras wasn't a part of the negotiations, in which Goldman Sachs managing directors John Mallory and Gerald Cardinale conducted shuttle diplomacy.</div></p> He could have been a redsox. </p>
Best news of the offseason. The only thing that could top this for me is if the Red Sox land Johan.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mynetsforlife)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> I doubt Theo would pull the trigger.</p> </div></p> I agree. A lot of people don't realize that Theo was against the Beckett deal, which was made in the timespan that he was not the GM. He seems to hate giving up top tier prospects.</p>
I love how us Sawx fans always turn Yankees threads in Sawx off-season threads GO BOSTON!</p> But paying anybody for anything that much is just plain wrong, but that's a different arguement for a different day. A-Rod could have bought Alaska 38 times with what he's being paid. Ridiculous.</p>
