Yankees trying to figure out how to avoid paying Alex Rodriguez bonuses (Report)

Even with Alex Rodriguez back at spring training, the New York Yankees are still trying to find creative ways to get out of paying him the millions he’s owed. The team is reportedly looking for a way out of paying $30 million in home run milestone bonuses.

Sources told CBS Sports that the Yankees think they can avoid having to pay that $30 million for any career milestone he reaches while under contract. The team hopes that market agreement wording can allow them to find a loophole to get out of it.

It’s apparently a matter of semantics. If the Yankees decide to avoid calling A-Rod’s home run marks “milestones,” they could avoid having to pay the bonus. In addition, they would force Rodriguez to testify under oath if he challenges their decision.

Rodriguez, who was suspended for the entirety of the 2014 season due to his past PED use, is just six home runs away from reaching 660, which would match Willie Mays’ mark. So, it’s clear that this battle could happen sooner or later.

How could the Yankees determine themselves what is a milestone or not? It turns out that the Yankees can say that his milestones have no marketable value because no one likes A-Rod any longer because of his tarnished image. There is little chance that people would buy hats and t-shirts marking A-Rod’s achievements.

At this point, it seems like the Yankees are trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel in an ongoing search to find ways to avoid paying Rodriguez, whose image is never going to recover from his ties to Biogenesis and PED-use. He did release a handwritten apology to the team, the MLB and fans.

He is already at George M. Steinbrenner field in Tampa for spring training with the team, which is trying to figure out where the 39-year-old will fit. According to the New York Post, manager Joe Girardi said that Rodriguez is “willing to do anything” to help the team win.

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