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tadashi
Feb 20, 2006

Carlosologist posted:

I mean, the second A-Rod deal was from 2008 to 2017. He was fine from 2008 to 2011, but 2012 he had the second hip surgery, 2013 was a partial season because of Biogenesis, he was gone for all of 2014, 2015 was a dead cat bounce, and he was released in 2016

there were only four seasons of good play in there, it was a hideously bad deal in hindsight

The final deal was about 9.4 million per WAR (that's without bonuses) at a time when good free agents would get something like 4-5 million per WAR (20 million per year at 4-5 WAR per season). He was supposed to get bonuses for passing certain HR milestones, so that would have added a lot of money to the deal.

It would have been far worse without the suspension, since the Yankees only paid him about $2MM and he get a chance to rehab and come back for a nice 3 win season after.

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