The 30 Million Dollar Man

Last week, Newsday's Wallace Matthews opined that the Yankees were better off without A-Rod, and that the organization should let him walk should he inevitably opt-out of his contract at the end of the season. Here we are a week later talking about Herculean numbers and figures. With a payroll already consistently yo-yo-ing around $200 million, can the Yankees afford to give this guy $30 million a year? With a 2nd place team fighting for their playoff lives, can they afford not to?