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Originally Posted by Orcin
IIRC Rodriguez threatened to exercise his opt-out clause and the Yankees offered the 10yr/$275M contract to keep him.
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He did opt out, and then the Yankees gave him a even bigger contract for him to come back. During this process, Texas Rangers was relieved of $21m they originally still owed Yankees for Rodriguez's contract.
From the Yankees point of view, the Rodriguez contract was a mistake, and they have no interest repeating that. From Cano's point of view, he's been contributing more than Rodriguez, so he'd question why the mistake can be made on him also.
I don't think anybody really did anything wrong in the Cano case. Yankees didn't want to overpay, and Marines wanted to overpay. Cano took the bigger contract. Cano felt lack of respect from Yankees because he's comparing himself to other Yankees, and I think that's justified also.