Closer Francisco Rodriguez has lost his salary arbitration case with the Angels and will be paid $10 million dollars for the 2008 season.  K-Rod was asking for $12.5 milliong.  He has recently said that he doesn’t see himself being with the Angels after this season because if they really wanted him to be there longterm, they would have already signed him to a longterm contract.

Hopefully K-Rod will just go out there and play baseball for the Angels this season and be the player that he is capable of being.

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Francisco Rodriguez recently said in an interview that this will probably be his last season with the Los Angeles Angels since they haven’t tried signing him to a long term deal.  I think he feels like he isn’t being taken care of by the Angels and not treated the right way by not having a long term deal on the table.

Rodriguez says all he can do is go out there and compete and help out the team in 2008.  Who knows if the Angels will make him a three to four year contract that he will be seeking.

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