SI's Jon Heyman was just on Rome's show and had some interesting comments about ARod.

First, almost every writer that I have heard asked thinks that ARod is going to opt out of his Yankee contract after this season, Heyman agrees with that.

Basically, he's got 3 years at roughly $80 mil left on his current deal, and the thought is that he can probably get a deal better than Soriano got from the Cubs this year (8yr/$136m) if he opts out, plus it gets him out of NY.

If you factor in that he'll most likely be chasing Barry Bonds' home run record during his next contract, you can see where it makes some sense for a team to pay that kind of $ for ARod.

More interesting was Heyman's comments that Rodriguez has slimmed down significantly over the offseason, and he's speculating that a return to SS is a real possibility when ARod gets away from Jeter/NYY.

I think you can see where I am going with this - ARod to SS, Guillen to 1B.

Would Ilitch pony up? Would you want him to?

I'm sure teams like the Giants (especially with Bonds' salary off the books) and the Angels will be hot after him as well, of course.