Alex Rodriguez: DH settles bonus dispute with Yankees – Major League Baseball

The Yankees have agreed to donate $150,000 to Pitch In For Baseball, a charity chosen by Hample that donates baseball equipment to those in need.

The Alex Rodriguez-New York Yankees stew of mistrust has been cooking on a steady simmer the past couple months, but the pot’s been heated up here in the middle of summer.

However, on Friday it was announced that the Yankees and Rodriguez had resolved a disagreement over financial bonuses due to him for historic statistical accomplishments.

Rodriguez is hitting. 280 with 15 homers and 39 RBI thus far on the season, ranking second on the team in batting average and third in long-balls and runs batted in.

Zack Hample poses with the baseball he caught on June 19th, after it was hit by New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez for a home run and his 3000th hit, at his home in New York, Friday, July 3, 2015.

“Hopefully, you’re happy now that I’m the one that got the ball”, Hample said. The agreement said that $1 million will go to charities long-supported by either the player or franchise, naming the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, the Boys & Girls Club of Tampa (where the Yankees hold spring training) and Pitch In For Baseball. He’ll never enter the Baseball Hall of Fame unless there’s some radical change in the voters, which seems almost impossible to imagine anytime soon.

But when the milestone was reached in May this year, the team backed away from the deal struck in 2007 as part of his $275million contract – claiming his involvement in a drugs scandal tainted him so much that his image was worthless. But maybe that’s smaller than the change in him as a person. “I think everybody in this room, if people are honest, would admit to saying at least one or two or maybe even 100 stupid things in their life that they wish they could take back, and for me that was my moment”. “Whenever a player is suspended, it’s hard to return to the field, and he’s played well”. The two sides sorted out a marketing agreement at the same time Rodriguez signed his 10-year, $275 million contract with the team, and the separate pact would pay the slugger $6 million each time he tied a legend on the all-time home run list (Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds). As for Zack Hample along with the $150,000 donation to his charity he is expected to receive memorabilia, tickets and other perks. Seriously, he wrote two damn books that cover it, among other baseball fan knowledge.

For once, Alex Rodriguez was on the receiving end of an apology.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi commented about the Rodriguez news on both fronts.