I'm tired of all this crap about how the Rangers can't compete because they're paying ARod too much. The Rangers' payroll last year was $106 million. Subtract ARod's money and they still have a bigger budger than the Astros, White Sox, Twins, Marlins, Blue Jays, As, and Expos. Somehow, those teams managed to compete. Imagine how good any of them would have been if you added ARod to the team. In fact you could 2 ARod contracts to the As and they'd still be under the Rangers budget.

ARod has been worth every penny the Rangers have paid him. The problem for the Rangers last year wasn't his $25 million, it was:
$13 - Park
$13 - JuanGon
$9+ - Everett
$7 - Rusty Greer
$3+ - Jay Powell
$2.5 - Ismael Valdes
$2.5 - Van Poppel

That's $50 million. Imagine if they had 3 ARod's.