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A rich A-Rod So what can you buy with $252 million?
Updated: Tuesday December 12, 2000 2:46 AM
ATLANTA (CNNSI.com)-- Merry Christmas, 25-year-old Alex Rodriguez. You are a very, very rich man. The four-time All-Star shortstop will reportedly earn $21 million a season until 2007, which breaks down to $129,629 per game. Or, if he duplicates his statistics from last year, it works out to roughly $37,906 per at-bat. An even $120,000 a hit. And $512,195 per home run. In fact, at $21 million a year, A-Rod will make more than the Twins or Marlins paid their entire team last season. But just how much can $252 million buy these days? Well, A-Rod could buy nine F-16's, or one for the entire starting lineup of the Texas Rangers. Or, he could buy the first 11-thousand people who show up at the ballpark in Arlington next season a brand new P.T. cruiser.
Or, he could treat 33-million, 600-thousand people to a $7.50 showing of the 'Grinch Who Stole Christmas', which is probably what commissioner Bud Selig is calling Rodriguez' agent, Scott Boras, right now. But while Rodriguez and Boras took flak for reportedly demanding such perks as a jet, public relations staff and offices during contract negotiations, maybe he does deserve it. After all, if you compare Rodriguez's $252 million contract to the latest estimated values of sports franchises by Forbes magazine Rodriguez is now worth more than every NHL team except the New York Rangers. Rodriguez ties for fifth in value in the NBA with Phoenix. And he's now worth more than the Milwaukee Bucks and Vancouver Grizzlies combined. And when you put A-Rod by himself on a list of baseball franchises, he ranks 13th -- ahead of 18 others. Of course, A-Rod is still $50 million dollars short of being worth as much as the least valuable NFL franchise, the Arizona Cardinals. Something for him to consider when his quarter-billion dollar contract runs out 10 years from now.
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