It’s been well established that Alex Rodriguez’s roles in the ESPN and Fox Sports broadcast booths take precedence over his token role as a special adviser to the Yankees.
So when general manager Brian Cashman learned of Rodriguez’s recent comments favoring the Red Sox’s power duo of J.D. Martinez and Mookie Betts over the Yankees’ slugging tandem of Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, he didn’t take offense.
Cashman gets it.
“He’s being paid a lot more by them to give strong opinions than he’s being paid by us,” Cashman told the New York Daily News prior to the Yankees’ matchup with Boston on Sunday night.