[轉錄][新聞] Rodriguez Avoids a High-and-Tight Pi …

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※ [本文轉錄自 NY-Yankees 看板] 作者: parabird (Harry) 看板: NY-Yankees 標題: [新聞] Rodriguez Avoids a High-and-Tight Pitch 時間: Wed Feb 7 14:59:02 2007 The New York Times By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Published: February 7, 2007 A-Rod在出席沒有險性的新書簽名會活動時,當他手拿著新書給記者拍照時,一個手拿相機的中年男子向A-Rod丟了一顆球,很明顯的他是要向A-Rod索取簽名,那顆球打到天花板,然後掉到地上(如果球丟準一點會打到A-Rod). It seemed like a harmless enough event for Alex Rodriguez — a book signing for his new children’s book at a Barnes & Noble store in Midtown Manhattan. But the distractions began shortly after Rodriguez, the Yankees’ third baseman, arrived around 1:30 p.m. yesterday. As Rodriguez posed for photographers holding a copy of the book, “Out of the Ballpark” (HarperCollins), a middle-aged man holding a camera tossed a baseball at Rodriguez, apparently because he wanted an autograph. The ball hit the ceiling — if thrown more accurately it could have hit Rodriguez — and then bounced on the floor. The man then scooted out of the store. Later, as reporters spoke with Rodriguez, a publicist from HarperCollins quickly tried to end the questions. Rodriguez kept talking and a reporter from Newsday was grabbed by a police officer and pushed away. In his brief conversation with reporters, Rodriguez skirted a question about opting out of his 10-year, $252 million contract at the end of this season, saying, “My situation and my only goal is to win a world championship, and I am going to take it day to day.” Rodriguez is going into the seventh year of his deal, and his fourth season with the Yankees. Under the terms of the contract, he has the right to walk away from the final three years of the deal and sign a new contract with the Yankees or any other team. Rodriguez’s agent, Scott Boras, told The Associated Press yesterday that Rodriguez was happy in New York, and that he and Rodriguez would probably not talk about the contract until after the season. “Obviously, when Alex’s contract was done, the revenues of the game were around $3 billion,” Boras said. “Now they are around $6 billion. The elite position player has not been really graded in this new revenue stream we’ve seen.” Translation: Rodriguez, in Boras’s opinion, can probably make more money with a new deal after this season. Rodriguez, meanwhile, said that he did not believe he had anything to repair with Manager Joe Torre, who, in frustration, dropped Rodriguez to eighth in the batting order for Game 4 of last season’s playoff series against Detroit. Rodriguez had only one hit through the first three games of that series. “I am an employee,” Rodriguez said. “If Joe says take out the garbage, I take out the garbage.” JETER EXPECTS CLEMENS TO PITCH Derek Jeter said he expected Roger Clemens to pitch this season. But Jeter, the Yankees’ captain, said he was not sure where Clemens might wind up. “The only thing I’ll say about Rocket is he hasn’t decided if he’s going to come back yet,” Jeter said yesterday after a workout in Tampa, Fla. “If you ask me what I think, I would think he would.” Clemens, 44, has said he will not make a decision on returning for a 24th major league season until sometime after spring training. The Yankees, the Astros and the Boston Red Sox are the top three contenders for Clemens’s services. (AP) FOLLOWING THE DOCTOR’S ADVICE Red Sox Manager Terry Francona does not expect Jonathan Papelbon to move back into the bullpen, even though it would make his life easier. “If I had my druthers, he would be our closer,” Francona said yesterday, a day before heading to Florida to get an early start on spring training. “It’ s not happening. We have to respect the medical people’s advice.” As a rookie in 2006, Papelbon saved 35 games in 41 opportunities despite a shoulder injury that caused him to cut his season short in September. Because of the injury — a tired shoulder, but short of the torn labrum he feared — doctors recommended that Papelbon pitch in the rotation this season so he would have a more regular and predictable schedule. (AP) HARANG AGREES TO DEAL The right-hander Aaron Harang avoided arbitration yesterday by agreeing to a four-year, $36.5 million contract that made him the Cincinnati Reds’ highest-paid pitcher. Harang emerged as one of the National League’s top starters last season, tying for the league lead with 16 wins and leading the N.L. with 216 strikeouts and 6 complete games.(AP) -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 59.104.226.85