Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez Representatives Negotiating Possible Settlement

After Alex Rodriguez's lawyer said his client would fight any discipline from Major League Baseball, a source familiar with discussions told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" Wednesday that A-Rod's representatives are now negotiating a possible settlement that could result in a lengthy suspension.

The source said MLB officials have told Rodriguez's attorneys that they are willing to ban him for life, although sources said it was not clear commissioner Bud Selig was prepared to make such a move, knowing Rodriguez would fight it in arbitration.

Several sources have told "Outside the Lines" that some MLB officials have pushed for a lifetime ban, saying they would rather force Rodriguez to defend himself than agree to a suspension that allows him play while he appeals. Rodriguez was presented with MLB's evidence in recent days, detailing what sources said were "volumes" of documents establishing a connection between Rodriguez and Biogenesis clinic founder Tony Bosch.

Sources said MLB was also given evidence supporting accusations that Rodriguez attempted to coerce at least one witness in MLB's investigation. That accusation is the basis of MLB's argument that Rodriguez may be punished for his conduct, in addition to multiple violations of the game's joint drug agreement.

Source: ESPN

 

Negotiations stalled. One of my sources said that MLB will announce the sanctions by Tuesday

 

Lifetime Ban? Lol...

 

I'm hearing Monday down here, JEM.

While on the subject, Mike Evans said this morning that Alex and his agent have been talking to some teams in Japan. If he gets a suspension for the rest of this year, and all of next year, he would play over there until 2015, then come back and be ready to play here in 2015.

Also, while I'm not an A-Rod fan by any means, if you give him a lifetime ban, don't you risk making him a sympathetic figure?

 

Zero chance he becomes a sympathetic figure. He is the opposite of sympathetic.

 

Tim Cowlishaw, sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News, said in his column today, that if people in 50 years looked back and saw that Barry Bonds' records were allowed to stand, that he was never suspended for a single game, and that voters would be able to consider him for the MLB HOF, while Alex was banned for life, than sympathy for Alex would not be out of the question.

 

Take this for what it's worth. The NY Daily News is reporting that MLB is going to give Alex a 214-game suspension.

 

Sounds like MLB is pushing for a settlement of rest of this season and the next two seasons. If they can't come to some sort of an agreement, the MLB will announce a lifetime ban and forbid him from playing during the appeals process. Just rumors of course since nothing in exactly concrete

 

I don't want to see arod paid another dollar. But the more I think about it, the more I really don't like how mlb is doing whatever they want with the suspensions. They are bypassing the system they put in place just to heck this guy.

 

I don't want him to see another dollar but part of me wants the Yankees to pay for their sins for signing him to the ridiculous contract.

 

Make the Yanks donate his yearly salary to a charity every year until the contract runs out. That money will still have to count towards to cap though. Everybody but A-Roid wins there

 

Yankee fans have been wanting him gone for a while...What a delusional jackass

 

Hollywood Insider Mike Evans said this morning that there is a rumor floating around that Alex has been juicing since he was 18.

 

Looks like he's out of U.S. MLB until 2015. I guess $275 million can't buy happiness after all.

 

He'll probably still play the rest of this season unless mlb can pull something out of their butt to keep him off the field this year. And if he wins the appeal it will most likely be dropped to 50 games.

Imo it doesn't matter what evidence the mlb has. This is his first time testing positive, which means a 50 game suspension. That's the punishment they agreed on. The only way their penalty should stand is if they can get him under some other rule or technicality.