After some speculation over the summer that the Yankees’ marquee player, outfielder-third baseman Alex Rodriguez, might be willing to take his free-agent butt to San Francisco for the right amount of cash, Giants fans were further excited last week when the team leaded the news it wasn’t very interested in re-signing Pedro Feliz, who has anchored the hot corner for the Giants for his entire eight-year career. If they didn’t want Feliz, was that a sign they might pick up A-Rod instead?

Not a chance. Sports sections today were filled with the news that Rodriguez was back talking to the Yankees, who had earlier given up on re-signing him. The power-hitting infielder is due to break Barry Bonds’ home run record (whether or not Bonds extends it by a few next year) in six or seven years, and the Yankees want him to do it in New York. After all — much like the Giants when they first signed Bonds — the Yankees will have a new ballpark to fill in a few years too.
 

I never seriously thought the Giants would make a play for A-Rod, as he is known, but what about World Series winning third baseman Mike Lowell, whose contract with the Red Sox has also expired? Couldn’t we get him?

Uh, no — the Yankees may want him too. In baseball, the table slants to the right.

Previously: Looking to the post-Bonds era

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