Why is Alex Rodriguez cooling down?

Question

Because of his April , he is in the spotlight so he is choking again?

Answer 1

He's waiting for his next batch of "Cream" and "Clear" to come from a Mr. B. Bonds.
j/k, its just the ups and downs in baseball.
pitchers are also starting to make more adjustments and throwing more breaking balls... he was crushing fastballs early in the year

Answer 2

Do you know anything about baseball? You think that A-Rod is cooling down because he was in the spotlight? He was in the spotlight all through April and he was red hot. In late April, he was on pace to hit 120 homers and have 324 RBI. No one could have kept up that pace. He is not in a slump, but he has cooled down a lot. It's only a matter of time, probably soon, where A-Rod goes off on another tear and hits 10 homers in a month.

Answer 3

Cause he was batting at at unrealistic pace.Albert Pujols had an April like that and the same thing happened.People started talking the possibility of him beating the single season homerun record and then he came down to earth and never got close.He's not choking its simply that theres hot and cold streaks.He was hot for a whole month its only natural he'd come back down to earth eventually.At the end of april he was on pace for like 300+ RBIs.Obviously he wasn't going to keep that up lol.

Answer 4

Well, thats just baseball you have your good and bad days. But I think that there was so much talk about him having the bests eason ever. he was going to be MVP, on a roll to be the Triple Crown Winner, and Beating the Single Season Homerun Record, that it stuck in her head, and he was trying to hard to hit mroe homers. He is much better, when he tunes things out and just plays baseball.

I think by the time A-rods career is over. He will be homerun king. If he doesn't start getting hurt, like Griffey has been through the years, if Griffey didnt get injured so many times he would be at , at least 700 homers so far

Answer 5

Cooling down is a better than "choking." It was not possible for him to keep up the pace he set in April, not possible for him or for anyone else in baseball. By year's end, A-Rod will be among the league leaders in average, home runs, and runs batted in. That is what matters, and that is the way his season should be judged. This from a Red Sox fan.

Chow!!

Answer 6

It's not choking if it's in the regular season. Anyway, a hitter cant stay hot forever and the same goes with A-Rod. Pitchers are starting to pitch around him a bit, but at least it's not a flat out slump.

Answer 7

Wow, he has cooled down a little...and already folks are saying he is choking? He leads the league in homers still...give me a break. Dude is still batting around .340 with 39 or 40 RBI. Spoiled Yankee fans.

Answer 8

it looks like he's trying to pull the ball too much...he had such a tremendous april and everything came so naturally for him during his hot streak that he is now instinctively trying to hit home runs, and when you try to hit home runs you generally go into a slump because you look for that one big swing too much...he just needs to go back to looking for base hits, and the home runs will come...also, it may just look a little worse than it really is because his recent numbers will be compared to the ones of april, although he hasn't yet homered in the month of may

Answer 9

Because it is impossible for somebody to be hot for 162 games.

Beyond that, until somebody else on the Yankees becomes a consistent RBI threat, A-Rod isn't going to see a lot of great pitches.

Answer 10

It's just baseball. You will have your ups and downs, there is no way a pace like that is sustainable for the whole season. He would have shattered Bonds' record with 80 something HR's if he maintained that pace.