“People all over the world are taking pay cuts and losing jobs. I would rather make pennies on the dollar and give hope to people and play baseball than not make anything and lose an entire year of their career,” Teixeira remarked.
First and foremost, let me say I am a huge Tex fan. He was a great Yankee and was instrumental in bringing us our 27th World Championship in 2009. Switch hitters with power don’t grow on trees. He is also the best defensive first basemen I’ve ever seen play.
Tex was a great player, but he was also the cookie-cutter Boras client.