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While Rodriguez is unlikely to get $27 million a year elsewhere, a canvas of executives at the GM meetings indicated he would have no problem landing a deal for six years at between $100-120 million. According to Joel Sherman this is what his options will be following the 2007 season: '1) to opt out as a free agent; 2) to push the Yanks to extend his contract upon threat of opting out; 3) to use the threat of opting out and the Yanks getting nothing to push the Yanks to trade him to a desired spot so that he does not have to forfeit the $27 million annually.' Yankees GM Brian Cashman said "because I do not have control" of a contract Rodriguez signed as a free agent with Texas, he does not worry about the potential. "If he chooses [to leave], so be it," Cashman said. "He earned the rights he has in that contract through fair negotiations." |
Following the 2007 season, Alex Rodriguez has the right to void the final three years on his contract and declare free agency. He would leaving $81 million on the table (of which New York is responsible for $51 million, with the Rangers picking up the balance).