{"id":370446,"date":"2025-12-26T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:32:07","slug":"in-many-ways-hes-our-babe-ruth-for-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370446\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn many ways, he\u2019s our Babe Ruth for the Yankees, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unique structure of the agreement for Lore and Rodriguez to begin as limited partners and assume majority control over the course of several years took some of the pressure off the situation. They were in no position to make any sweeping changes or promises right away, and Garnett wasn\u2019t in a hurry to engage while Taylor was still calling the shots. Rather than trying to rush the process, Lore and Rodriguez set about trying to earn Garnett\u2019s trust over the long haul. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6911903\/2025\/12\/25\/kevin-garnett-timberwolves-return-a-rod\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cIn many ways, he\u2019s our Babe Ruth for the Yankees, right?\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cSo it was important to start kind of going down a path of mending a relationship.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cIn many ways, he\u2019s our Babe Ruth for the Yankees, right?\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cSo it was important to start kind of going down a path of mending a relationship.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6911903\/2025\/12\/25\/kevin-garnett-timberwolves-return-a-rod\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unique structure of the agreement for Lore and Rodriguez to begin as limited partners and assume majority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,114570,462,9571,82,158473,1505],"class_list":["post-370446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-limited-partners","tag-mlb","tag-rodriguez","tag-sports","tag-sweeping-changes","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}