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The Yankees' payroll is now close to $190 million. Of the 29 other teams, maybe three are more then half that amount.
In 1975 Bowie Kuhn, the commissioner at the time, vetoed a deal between the Yankees and A's where Steinbrenner bought three of the A's best players for well over a million dollars. His reasoning was that it went against the best interests of baseball. If Selig has any brains in that apparently empty skull of his, he will do the same thing here.
As for the players involved, I can't figure out why Texas would do this except to get rid of A-Rod's contract. They have a very good young secondbaseman in Michael Young, and Soriano sucks defensively. Contraras was terrible in NY, so why would he be any good in that pitcher's hell the Ballpark in Arlington?
Funny thing is, A-Rod's isn't the contract holding the team back; it's CHan Ho Park's. If they could get rid of HIM and as much of his contract as possible, they would be fine.
There is no way to convince me that this deal should happen.
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--Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun
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