A-Rod Is Money In A Contract Year

Sure, it's not a guaranteed contract year, but there's no way Alex Rodriguez doesn't opt out of his contract after this season.

He can't be happy in New York and he has a few teams who will be willing to hand him a bundle of money this offseason.

Rodriguez has been on fire this season hitting 12 homeruns in his first 16 games which tied a Major League record. He has eight more games to hit three more to set the record for most April homers currently held by Albert Pujols at 14.

But we wonder, would Rodriguez be on fire like this if he couldn't opt out after the season? We'll never know but it is an interesting question. Does Rodriguez play less passionatly for New York before this season because his heart isn't in New York? Perhaps, again short of a confession we'll never know.

He performed great in his first two seasons in Texas while he was presumebly happy, playing in a atmospher of his choosing, in his third season his production dipped as perhaps the losing finally got to him.

Two of his three seasons in New York have been far below Rodriguez's normal performance level, is it because of the atmosphere?

Will the Boston Red Sox be one of those teams who will make a run at him if he opts out this winter? Probably, they nearly had him after the 2003 season before the MLBPA balked at the restructuring of his contract Boston and Rodriguez agreed to and the Yankees swooped in and stole him.

Would Rodriguez still want to play in Boston?

And would Red Sox nation want him now?

This offseason could be a very interesting one for many teams.

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