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A-Rod to take on advisor role at Yanks camp
- Updated: January 6, 2017
NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez plans to wear a baseball uniform again this spring, but he will be doing so as a special advisor and not as an active player.
“Alex is enjoying his time off and looking forward to heading to Spring Training to work with the young guys, as he has said all along,” Ron Berkowitz, A-Rod’s spokesman, told the New York Daily News.
After being unconditionally released by the Yankees in August, Rodriguez accepted managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner’s invitation to serve as a special advisor and instructor for the Yankees through Dec. 31, 2017.
Though he played his final game in pinstripes on Aug. 12, Rodriguez never specifically said he would retire from baseball, though he indicated at the time that he was “at peace.”
“I’ve got to tell you, it’s going to be tough to top that,” Rodriguez said shortly after notching career hit No. 3,115, a run-scoring double off the Rays’ Chris Archer in his final game. “That’s a memory that I will own forever.”
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