Currently the toppaidmajorleaguebaseball player, Rodrigueztakes home $28 million a year, meaning it would take 25, 000 A-Rod salaries to carry the $700 billion.
The 37-year-old Rodriguez has been as much a lightning rod for back-page fodder and the subject of Major League Baseball investigations as he has been a force on the field since joining the Yankees in 2004.
So having been negligent and then indecisive, how did Selig react when someone leaked supposedly confidential test results that in 2003 Alex Rodriguez used two no-no drugs (about which A-Rod--unlike Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens--immediately came clean)?
He will watch Rodriguez's progress from surgery but won't predict whether A-Rod will regain the offensive form that led to three AL MVP awards and 647 home runs 115 shy of tying Barry Bonds' career record.