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Originally posted by Aadik
Lets see- the Rangers payroll was approximately 90 mil last year. They spent 13 mil on Chan Ho park, 3 mil on Jay Powell, 3 mil on Todd Van Poppel, 8 million on Ivan Rodriguez. That's more than 25 million that was nowhere near A-rod in production- as a group.
While its fun to make this pronouncement about the Rangers and blame the best player on the team (hell in the AL) for his team's problems, it shows a great deal of ignorance. Without A-rod, that lineup is a lot weeker- and the object of the game is to score more runs than the other team - thus an 8-7 win is just as good as a 2-1 win. The comment about the defensive shortstop who hits .220 forgets that A-rod is a good defensive SS, who happened to win the Gold Glove last year. It also shows a lack of understand about the value differential.
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My point is that without him eating up $25 million, they'd be in a better place to pick up what they need; pitching.
I was going to bite my tongue, but instead I must say: Only a team that would pay a SS $25 million would give Van Poppel $3 million.