Alex Rodriguez Reportedly Will Be Suspended For Rest of 2013, All Of 2014

Major League Baseball appears ready to announce suspensions in relation to the Biogenesis drug lab investiation.   Alex Rodriguez, reportedly facing a lifetime ban, appears to have agreed to take a substantial ban and be allowed to return to baseball.  ESPN reports:

BREAKING: Alex Rodriguez will be suspended Monday, likely through end of '14 season, sources have told Outside the Lines.

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The New York Yankees are really lucky; they will save the remainder of Rodriguez's $28 million salary for the rest of the year and the $25 million due to him next year.   Rodriguez's production has been way down in recent years as he has battled injury.

If he had been free of a suspension, Rodriguez could have returned to the Yankees lineup on Monday.  Instead, they'll see him in Spring Training 2015.     Even with the suspension, the Yankees will owe Rodriguez $61 million for 2015, 2016, and 2017.