Move over, Col. Steve Austin. Via the Post’s Joel Sherman:

A-Rod now has 27 homers and 73 RBIs. He is on pace for a 65-homer, 177-RBI season. Do you wonder what that might mean on the open market? I bet Scott Boras does.

In the May 22 edition of LA Weekly, A-Rod’s agent was quoted as saying, “I’ve said it before – there’s going to be a $30 million-per-year contract. I don’t know when, but there will be one, because baseball revenue will keep growing, and I’m all about the percentage of revenues.”

Well, Boras has just one client who can pursue that and it is the one already making a record $27 million a year, the one on pace for a 65-homer season.

Last week, Newsday’s Wallace Matthews opined that the Yankees were better off without A-Rod, and that the organization should let him walk should he inevitably opt-out of his contract at the end of the season. Here we are a week later talking about Herculean numbers and figures. With a payroll already consistently yo-yo-ing around $200 million, can the Yankees afford to give this guy $30 million a year? With a 2nd place team fighting for their playoff lives, can they afford not to?