"You can sum up almost everything about Alex Rodriguez with the two-word expression that has become a part of American culture thanks to Facebook.

It's complicated.

And so we begin the not-so-simple task of explaining why the greatest thing Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has done this season has been to put together a team that's so good the highest-paid player in baseball is, basically, a surplus player.

"Oh, I don't think that's the case at all," said Cashman, when told this was what we were thinking just a few days before Rodriguez's planned re-entry tonight in Toronto."