Comments on: Alex Rodriguez gets a hit, but not against a righty

By: serbingood

serbingood — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:31:19 +0000

Mickey Mantle ended up with a career 298 batting average. His biggest regret was not retiring a year or two earlier so that he could have a 300+ BA.

Alex will not break Aaron’s or Bond’s HR records. The last 3 years have been one injury after another (knee, hip and hand this year). In fairness, the hand injury was a freak accident that we can’t hold against him.

Alex is in the twilight of his career. Did the move to 3rd base have anything to do with the decline? We’ll never know.

Alex, take a long look at Mickey Mantle’s career. See anything similar? Time to think about retiring, maybe after next season. OK?

By: atfinch1984

atfinch1984 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:23:36 +0000

Alex Rodriguez is not even real. He doesn’t exist.

By: willclarkgameface

willclarkgameface — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:57:38 +0000

You generally want to be able to say that the highest paid player on your team is your best and will save you from drowning a scary slow death. You can’t do that with A-Roid.

Not only is he typically bad this year in the playoffs, it’s magnified with the benching AND Jeter going down.

The entire Yankee lineup is tragically bad and all the Tigers need to do is keep the damn ball in the ball park. Keep it away from all batters, don’t the lefties pull it down the line, keep the ball on the ground and you know what? YOU WILL WIN.

Easy peasy.

I love watching A-Roid further disintegrate in front of our eyes.

By: itsonlyaspeedbump

itsonlyaspeedbump — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:37:04 +0000

Yikes, guess the money really does matter. Granderson and Cano have got hardly the same amount of criticism their way despite hitting just as poorly.

(and yes I do know that Cano has a special HBT article written just for him a few posts ago. I’m talking about the national media in general.)

By: hojo20

hojo20 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:19:06 +0000

A-Rod making contact is a start to get out of the slump. Maybe Granderson & Cano will do the same.

By: frank433

frank433 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:15:11 +0000

It’s the playoffs. It’s the biggest stage of the year. He’s paid to hit. He isn’t hitting. All that adds up to a reason to pile on until he breaks out.

By: weaselpuppy

weaselpuppy — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:06:04 +0000

LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!!!!

By: xjokerz

xjokerz — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:55:04 +0000

More importantly, he makes 30 million a year.. is in a serious decline and bascially makes 60,000 everytime he steps up to AB
i hope watching Aroid swing and miss for the next 5 years translates to 60,000 an AB…

enjoy that decline yankee fans, amazing what happens when your body is missing your HGH

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:46:44 +0000

Leave Arod alone. Do not forget that he was unable to swing the bat for several weeks after he broke his hand. Once the hand healed, he essentially had to begin spring training again in the middle of the season. I doubt that many hitters hit well when they come back from that type of injury. One example that I am well aware of this season is Jay’s catcher J. P. Arencibia. Arencibia had been hot when his hand was broken. Once he came back, he struggled with his timing and was not the same hitter as he had been prior to the injury.