“Wall Street Journal says Yankees not on K-Rod’s no-trade list.” –Adam Rubin Tweet, July 11th
Yup. And now we know that there’s a perfectly good explanation for that. Are you ready for this? This is a good one … Nobody was on K-Rod’s no trade list!!!
No really, this is a doozy. Check this out:
The contract Rodriguez signed with the Mets before the 2009 season includes a limited no-trade clause, meaning he could list 10 teams to which he could veto a deal. But according to two baseball officials with direct knowledge of the situation, Rodriguez’s previous agent, Paul Kinzer, never submitted the list of 10 teams.
The Mets thought that once Boras assumed representation, he would scrutinize Rodriguez’s contract and either try to submit a list or perhaps file a grievance that might allow him to do so.
To avoid that, and to have the freedom to trade Rodriguez wherever the team pleased, Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson quickly sent Rodriguez, and roughly $5 million, to the Brewers for two players to be determined. Those players will be chosen over the next few weeks from a list of about five minor leaguers.
It’s like when Felix Unger gave his roommate Oscar his insurance payment to mail, only to find it in Oscar’s jacket four months later and have to get a new insurance policy, and then it leads to a decathlon contest. No wonder Frankie changed agents! He probably switched to Scott Boras after Kinzer beat him in their own decathlon but Frankie found out he cheated by only doing two chinups and never alleying but ooping so he punched him out. I wonder if Frankie was heard making a honking noise when hearing about the trade:
“But the Brewers were on my no-trade list how could this … you mean you never got the list? But … I gave it to Paul and … oh he must have left it on the table at Carnegie Deli instead of the tip … and … hooooooooonk hooooooooonk!”
Here I am wondering and worrying if the teams that Frankie put on the list in 2009 could be changed from year to year … and there were no teams! There were as many teams on that list as there were physicals taken by J.J. Putz in ’09. And basically, the Mets had to get him wheeled before Boras and his team of henchmen figured this out. In retrospect, holy ****, that was a close one! How pissed would all of us be if Boras had gotten a ten team list in a day earlier? Somebody in this entire equation was pretty shrewd. I just can’t figure out who it is. Sure as hell wasn’t Kinzer. And it probably wasn’t Omar Minaya, who never followed up on this … but then again he was planning on paying him $17.5 million for no good reason so why would he care? If this whole sequence of nonsense was made into a movie, it wouldn’t have starred Brad Pitt like Moneyball. More accurately, it would have been ripped to shreds on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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