NY POST - Alex Rodriguez knows when he will retire.
The Yankees star told ESPN.com that he will hang up his cleats after the 2017 season when his contract with the team runs out. The PED-tainted slugger returned from a one-season suspension last year and belted 33 home runs with 86 RBIs even as he faded under the weight of playing 151 games.
A-Rod will earn $40 million over the final two seasons of the 10-year, $275 million deal he signed before the 2008 season.
Absolute no-brainer move by A-Rod. This is what you do when you're the most humble, benevolent superstar in the sport. You give the people what they want. You think the rest of baseball could prepare a proper celebration of A-Rod in six months? You think one season is enough time to reflect and commend one of the great careers in the history of professional sports? Of course it's not. That's why we're all getting two. Sure a year was enough for Mo and Jeetes. They're easy. Put a patch on your hat, make a sandcastle, build a rocking chair out of broken bats and you've done your due-dilegence. But when you're honoring someone as revered as Alex Rodriguez you don't just put together some shitty knickknack from Michaels. We may be talking marble sculptures and child sacrifices for some of these inter-league games this season.
Obviously this isn't surprising. A-Rod's already slowly transitioning into retirement. Between adopting a completely different personality, playing broadcaster on Fox and being the head of a wildly successful corporation that almost has a functioning webpage, A-Rod's pretty much all but hung up his cleats. Mix that in with the fact that he'll be baseball's all-time home run king at the end of 17', his desire to settle down with his daughters (did you know he had those?) and his new homely billionaire life partner and A-Rod's life post-baseball is looking pretty sweet.
PS - watching A-Rod deflect questions about his retirement like a robot with cliches about "the team" for the next two years is going to be great.
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