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A-ROD, AGENT MEET IN CALIFORNIA TO DISCUSS FUTURE

TAMPA – Alex Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras are huddling in Orange County, Calif., this week, and the question Yankees fans have about the AL MVP favorite is this: Are they planning an exit strategy or trying to find a way to stay in The Bronx?

The main topic for Rodriguez to decide on is if he will opt out of the final three years of his contract and leave $91 million on the table. He has until 10 days following the World Series to opt out and become a free agent; Boras said last week a 12-year deal worth $360 million isn’t out of the question. The Yankees have said if Rodriguez opts out, they won’t chase him as a free agent since they would lose the $23.1 million over the next three years the Rangers are paying on Rodriguez’s contract. However, that could change.

“We plan to spend a lot of time together,” Boras told The Associated Press. “We are going through reams of information now and looking at the baseball side, the economic aide, the future of his family and what their goals are. Putting that all into the landscape of what decision he will make.”

Rodriguez was voted The Sporting News Player of the Year yesterday; 72.3 percent of the major leaguers who participated voted for him.

While Rodriguez and Boras huddle not far from where the Angels, who have been the favorite to land the superstar if he splits The Bronx, play in Anaheim, the Yankees brass is at Legends Field deciding Joe Torre’s fate today.

Rodriguez supported Torre after the ALDS loss to the Indians, but Boras doesn’t know if Rodriguez’s pinstriped future is tied to Torre returning.

“That’s not a question I have ever asked Alex,” Boras said.

“Alex enjoyed playing for Joe. Certainly his entire tenure in New York was with Joe and it’s really all he knows as a Yankee. He was an advocate of Joe as a manager.”

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