2007-10-06 21:11:15 · 14 answers · asked by Blake B 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
not a Yankee fan but I do recognize A-rod's greatness
2007-10-06 21:11:57 · update #1
I honestly can't choose a best answer for this one, there are a lot of good ones. I'll put this one to a vote
2007-10-07 05:28:43 · update #2
I am a Yankee fan. A-Rod is a great player but he has simply not performed in the post season. The post season is where great ones make their mark. A-Rod has yet to make his mark in the post season since coming to NY. That is why Jeter gets the respect that he does. His regular season numbers are not that mind boggling, but his post season play is fantastic.
2007-10-06 21:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by TC 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bucky must be a right wing republican. Using stats to whatever advantage possible. You take what are Jeter's two worst postseason series and make it out to look like Jeter is bad. Why do you not show what his postseason career numbers look like? They are .311 AVG, .380 OBP, .473 SLG. Not too shabby especially compared to A-rod's career numbers. .268/.357/.464. And A-rod's numbers that you point out are from before the 2004 ALCS. Since then he has been horrible in the playoffs. Here's his past three years in the postseason including right now.
2005 .133 AVG, .381 OBP, .200 SLG
2006 .071 AVG, .071 OBP, .071 SLG
2007 .000 AVG, .250 OBP, .000 SLG
And here are Jeter's from that same time.
2005 .333/.364/.619
2006 .500/.529/.938
2007 .125/.125/.125
Obviously Jeter's numbers appear to all be better than A-rod's there. And it's not all about the numbers. It's about coming up clutch in the big time. Jeter has done it time and time again. A-rod has not once yet as a Yankee in the playoffs.
Don't get me wrong. I'm the first one out there hoping A-rod turns it around and leads the Yankees back from an 0-2 hole and carries the Yankees to their 27th championship. If I was a betting man though I would say Jeter would be the one starting any rally that the Yankees would have.
And if the Yankees do get swept out of the playoffs and A-rod goes 0 for whatever today he will get booed out of town. All us Yankee fans know he's leaving anyways. He can't handle New York and all he really is, is a money grubbing whore.
2007-10-07 02:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by answerguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope.
for as good a player as a-rod is, he has proven time and time again that when it really matters he doesn't hold up well under pressure. sure, he had quite a few walk off hits this year. however none of those games were really must-win situations for the yankees.
just because the rest of the team is struggling doesn't mean he gets a free pass for playing poorly in the post-season. this entire season the yankees were struggling, and that didn't stop him from having a phenominal season. he's the main reason they made the playoffs (the number of yankee wins that came from a-rod's walk off hits is higher than the ammount they won the wildcard by)
ultimately at this point in the season, what has happened over the past few months means absolutely nothing. just look at the mariners team that got 116 wins, they got killed in the playoffs that year. it all comes down to performing when it's a win or go home situation. the majority of the regular season isn't like that.
sure, a-rod isn't the only big name player who isn't cutting it in the postseason, and he certainly won't be the last. that doesn't change the fact that when your expected to perform to a certain standard and you fail to do so, your gonna hear some boo's from the fans. that's just part of the game.
2007-10-07 02:00:42 · answer #3 · answered by greg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A-Rod haters who are jealous of him will continue to berate him no matter what he does, while TRUE fans will appreciate his greatness and support him. He carried the Yankees on his back throughout the year and single handedly got them into the playoffs. Now that he is struggling, they blame him alone even though the Yankees are batting only .121 as a team. Matsui and Posada are also batting .000 and Jeter isn't doing a whole lot better. And, the key factor here is that A-Rod isn't getting anything to hit. Hopefully he will opt out and go to a team that appreciates him.
How many other players have averaged 44 home runs and 128 RBIs per year throughout their career? Only one besides A-Rod.......Babe Ruth!
2007-10-07 00:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by Bill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes A-Rod is a great player there is no doubt in my mind, but until he can win in October he will continue to have that monkey on his back. Love or hate the Yankees, it doesn't matter, you will find that the Yankee fans are harder on their team then any other. Spoiled, yes we are. I admit it. Love them through thick and thin? Absolutely. I am a yankee fan, I am a third generation yankee fan. I bleed Pinstripes. And always will, but in a city and a region where the Yankees are the team ( I live 350 miles from the city but still reside in the state of New York, not to mention the faithful in New Jersey) we love to see our team win, just as any other sports fan. Many fault us because of the payroll, I admit is it crazy! But look at the farm system and who is playing: Hughes, Chamberlain, Rivera, Jeter, Cano, Posada, Duncan, Ohlendorf, and a whole string of new faces coming up.
I really don't care who else likes them, I root for them, I always will and if your team beats mine, good for your team, after all pitchers and catchers report again in mid February.
Have a good one!
2007-10-07 01:49:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A - Rod is simply the best player in baseball right now. The Yankees wouldn't even be in the playoffs if not for him. Anybody saying that he isn't doing anything in the playoffs might want to check out everyone else on that Yankee team. I havn't seen anyone do anything. And who cares about the past, we are talking now.
2007-10-06 21:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quarter-billion dollar contracts come with commensurate expectations, fair or not.
Number of quarter-billion dollar contracts among all MLB players: one.
ARod could just as well be wearing a uniform with a pinstriped bullseye on his back.
Prior to the 2004 season, Boston tried to work out a trade with Texas for Rodriguez, and I was enthused. Not just because he was heading to Boston, but because a championship in Boston would MEAN something. Win there and his money would have been no good over all New England outside of Fairfield County, CT. The deal fell through -- the union refused to let his contract be revised -- he went to New York, and the Red Sox won anyway.
And Boston held a celebration the likes of which no one has ever seen before.
Whereas a championship in the Bronx, though deeply desired, would be just another notch in the bedpost, as it were. Yankee fans want it -- demand it, really -- but even if it happens with ARod on the team, putting out a no-questions-asked WS MVP performance, it'll just be another one, fresh ammunition for gloating. The t-shirt vendors would have to change to the "27" versions, George would slip back into his coma without firing anyone, and so on... but it would soon blur into the team's rich history without particular distinction. Rodriguez would get more "about time!" comments than "atta boy!"s.
Opt out and go to Chicago, Alex. Win there and it'll be comparable to the Red Sox' 2004 title. Folks'll be saying you should wear a Cubs cap on your Hall plaque before the champagne is mopped up. And you'll get to be a shortstop again, go back to chasing Wagner instead of Schmidt for the Greatest Ever At recognition. Help land a championship trophy where the fans will actually APPRECIATE all you do.
Not that ARod is the cure for all the Cubs' woes, but he'd surely help, and a lot.
Meanwhile, Yankee fans continue to need a losing team, several seasons thereof actually, to act as the younger generation's metaphoric forty years of wandering the desert. They need the perspective dark Octobers could provide. The hubris of entitlement, coupled with complete lack of gratitude and appreciation, is unseemly, and needs to be demolished.
2007-10-07 02:04:18 · answer #7 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a big emphatic no. regardless of how he did in the past, when you go 4 for 47 with 2 runs scored and ZERO rbis? you'd best expect severe criticism - especially since you make over 25 mil a year and will opt out to get a contract worth 30 mil/yr.
did he get the yankees to the playoffs? not by himself. he gave them a boost mostly early in the season, and their pitching was improved over the later part. the man is pressing, and trying too hard to show he can be great at this stage of the season, which is not what a team player does.
2007-10-06 23:50:26 · answer #8 · answered by djboston 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeter has been better in the post-season than Rodriguez, but it is totally a myth that Rodriguez has always been bad and Jeter always good.
Here are some Ba/OBP/SLG lines for a few post-season series. Guess who did what:
A) 409/480/773
B) 148/179/259
C) 200/333/233
D) 421/476/737
B is Jeter in the 2001 World Series--you know, the one where he was "Captain Clutch?"
C was Jeter in the 2004 series against Boston.
A and D are Rodriguez, ALCS in 2000 and ALDS in 2004.
Jeter is not always great in the play-offs and Rodriguez not always bad.
But if a lie gets repeated enough, some people will believe it.
2007-10-06 22:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Bucky 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He is one of those players who lookes like he does great all season, then when the big games come up he swings like he is swatting flies, the hole Yankee team is to blame when they get swept, remember Serrano a couple of years ago he did the same thing in the playoffs he was like 0 for 24, the yanks ended up getting rid of him.
2007-10-06 22:22:35 · answer #10 · answered by darrinolah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A-Rod? Look at ALFONSO SORIANO. What the heck did he do in the Cubs' sweep? If you said he struck out 10 times, you'd be correct.
2007-10-06 23:33:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋