A-Rod Cost Yankees $317 Million For 1 Championship
By the time that Alex Rodriguez collects his last payment next year as a player for the Yankees, he will have received $317,368,852 from New York, according to a review of his contracts.
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By the time that Alex Rodriguez collects his last payment next year as a player for the Yankees, he will have received $317,368,852 from New York, according to a review of his contracts.
Alex Rodriguez's memories of Fenway Park are as textured as the complicated story of his 22-year career. But on Thursday, the slugger will wear a Yankees uniform as a player in Boston for the final time.
Despite his .204 batting average this year, baseball fans paid average prices on Monday that were more than four times higher to see Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez play his last game in pinstripes on Friday against the Rays.
One of the most prolific players and polarizing figures in baseball history, the slumping slugger plans to take his final turn at-bat with the New York Yankees on Friday night and then become a special adviser and instructor with the team next year.
Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is expected to announce his retirement on Friday. He has been with New York since 2009, but began his MLB career with the Rangers in 2003, where he remained for more than four years.
After trading four veterans and turning their attention toward rebuilding, the Yankees appear to have little or no use for 41-year-old designated hitter Alex Rodriguez, whose playing time has all but disappeared in the past month.
Chase Headley scored on a passed ball with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and the Yankees won in their final at-bat for the second straight game to beat the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Thursday afternoon.
Texas had a 98.8 percent probability of beating the New York Yankees, extending their winning streak to five and improving to 21-6 in June.
Hamels breezed through seven shutout innings to win his fourth consecutive start, Adrian Beltre homered and drove in three runs, and Texas trounced the New York Yankees 7-1 on Tuesday night.
The Texas Rangers wrapped up a weird win at 2:44 a.m. Tuesday, rallying after a rain delay of more than 3 1/2 hours in the ninth inning to beat the New York Yankees 9-6 with maybe 100 fans left in the stands.
Only one team from last year's AL postseason is in position to return based on the current standings, and that's the Rangers. The other four playoff teams are all at or below .500 with two of them being in last place.
Elvis Andrus had the game-winning RBI triple for the Texas Rangers on a night when their shortstop from more than a decade ago hit his 100th homer in the stadium.
In his latest start, Griffin pitched eight strong innings -- the longest outing by a Texas starter this season -- to lead the Rangers to a 10-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.
Texas finally ended a no-hit bid by New York Yankees starter Nathan Eovaldi to start to the seventh, and got its only run off a reliever the following inning in a 3-1 loss for a four-game losing streak in which the Rangers have hit .178 and scored only five runs.
Alex Rodriguez said that he plans to retire from baseball after the 2017 season, when his $275 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees expires. The 40-year-old slugger is fourth on the career home run list.
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Luis Severino looks like the next Yankees ace.
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On a day of stories from a lifetime in baseball, Yogi Berra was remembered as more than one of the greats.
Hall of Fame catcher and New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra died Tuesday at age 90, the Yogi Berra Museum announced and the Yankees and MLB confirmed.
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Josh Hamilton's sharp single with two outs in the ninth inning gave the Rangers a 7-6 victory on Thursday night and a split in the four-game series against the Yankees.
Colby Lewis helped the Rangers bounce back from a lopsided loss on Tuesday night, leading the team on the mound to a 5-2 victory over the Yankees on Wednesday.
New York overcame an early deficit with 11 runs in the second inning, and got a 21-5 win on Tuesday night as the Rangers lost for the 12th time in their last 13 home games.
Alex Rodriguez had a 40th birthday bash against his former team, as the Rangers dropped the series opener against the Yankees by a score of 6-2 on Monday night.
