I can't blame the guy for not wanting to do something he wasn't planning on doing an no one asked him first.

If I went to work tomorrow and they said, you now have to clean toilets, I would do it because I don't have any way to not be working but I would certainly find another job ASAP.

Soriano is under contract so he can't really do that.

I was really hoping he'd keep not playing but if he missed time due to suspension he'd not come up for free agency and he probably took the field knowing it was best for his future.

And to back up what Ari post about the numbers in Texas.. Soriano is a pull hitter who had to hit homeruns to the deepest left field power alley in any stadium at 399 feet when he was with the Yankees. The home runs went down.. I'm guessing because he didn't get to face the Rangers pitching and had to face the Yankees