The ones that actually understand baseball know ARod hurts the team. He's supposed to be great but in big situations he turns into alvaro espinoza. No he's not, the best players in baseball come through when it matters. He's the best stat sheet stuffer in baseball.
u can't just pick and choose when a-rod is good. so does he hit all his rbi when it's 10-0 either way and not when it matters? the stats don't lie over this much of a season... yanks fans just love to hate on their players (what have you done for me lately?)
I say this all the time, and yet I would get laughed at a lot by Yankees fans...until this year. I had a discussion with my boss last year about who I'd rather have Arod or Lowell..I choose Lowell...Lowell was last years World Series MVP
If you never had a significant @ bat in your whole career or don't come through in pressure situations, leave RISP in big games. You're not the best player in baseball IMO. I wished they never signed him, but that's a moot point.
Didn't detroit waive Sheffield? They should have waiver claimed him. oops, dead wrong, I thought I heard the Tigers did. http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=122111
That's the problem, he hasn't done anything. Hitting homeruns when the team is up 8-9 runs is nothing IMO. Helping us get into the playoffs then disappear year after year its a joke.
that's ridiculous, his postseason avg is .279 lifetime... just because he is a .310 hitter in the season doesn't mean he disappears, people spotlight every single out this guy has in the playoffs yet fail to look at the career numbers... o well, i guess yankee fans don't have to worry about that this year.
I don't play the stats game, numbers do lie. Do it in pressure situations and in the playoffs, the guy looks like a deer in the headlights everytime the pressure is on. Why does everyone make excuse's for this choke artist is beyond me. I'm a lifetime Yankee fan, but I can't stand the guy he isn't a winner. Check out this *stat*, I posted this last November when we signed the choker. “Since Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS — the night Boston began its epic comeback from three games down against the Yankees — (Alex) Rodriguez has come to the plate with 38 runners on base, over the span of 59 at-bats. He left every single one on base, going 0-for-27, right through the Yanks’ Division Series loss to Cleveland this month.” http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/the-most-amazing-stat-youll-ever-see/
