TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees paid Alex Rodriguez $21 million to work as an adviser to the team owner Hal Steinbrenner last year. Apparently, Rodriguez found the work so agreeable he agreed to return — for what figures to be a relative pittance.
Rodriguez worked for the Yankees last season while fulfilling the final year of a 10-year, $275 million contract after being released late in 2016 and eventually retiring.
The Yankees did not say what Rodriguez, 42, will earn this year, but he will return to a role that the former Yankees Reggie Jackson, Hideki Matsui and Nick Swisher will also serve in.