“I do want to be remembered as someone who was madly in love with baseball,” Rodriguez said Sunday. After his final game, Rodriguez will sign a contract to serve as a special adviser and instructor with the Yankees through 2017, the team said. The Yankees on Sunday announced that Alex Rodriguez would retire after Friday’s game at Yankee Stadium against the Tampa Bay Rays, bringing to an end a 22-season career filled with achievement and controversy. The Yankees then played some of their best baseball of the season, going 16-8 in his absence. “Saying goodbye may be the hardest part of the job,” Rodriguez said at a news conference at Yankee Stadium on Sunday morning.

Source: New York Times August 07, 2016 15:07 UTC