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Originally Posted by holyroller
Yeah and you also have to factor in how much money the team has to spend. That wasn't the best contract in the world for the Rangers (though not as bad as some people think) because they didn't have as much to spend. For the Yankees, it's not a bad contract at all. In fact, a a percentage of payroll it's about neutral.
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I think what happened with the Rangers was other bad contracts. When they first signed Rodriguez, it actually made sense, because they are willing to spend at the time, and the Rodriguez deal helped them a lot on local development deals.
However, most of their non-Rodriguez money were purely spent. When they decided to go cheap and lower the payroll, of course the Rodriguez contract would not make sense any more.