Following the advice of Kobe Bryant, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez recently traveled to Germany to receive Orthokine therapy on his right knee and left shoulder.
Kobe has this procedure done on his knee, and he has been raving about it sense. Even if this does go well you have to really start worrying about A-Rod's health long term now. He has not played in more than 138 games in any of the last four seasons due to injuries, yet still has six years and $143 million in base salary left on his contract.
He is coming off a year when he was only able to play 99 games, hit only 16 HRs with 62 RBIs. Those are numbers Youk puts up on an injury plagued year, which is bad, but when you're paying a guy like A-Rod that type of money it can be a killer.
The bottom line is that A-Rod in the next couple of years is going to have to turn into a DH, and the money they are going to be paying him for that is silly. With Jeter/ARod not getting any younger the Yankees have to be concerned. For now, they have to hope that this procedure can buy them another year or two.