A-Rod’s Last 30 Regular Season Games
Posted by Steve L. on April 18th, 2012 · Comments (17)
Over his last 30 regular season games, Alex Rodriguez’ BA/OBP/SLG line is .205/.341/.348 (in 112 AB).
If his numbers are in the same range a month from now, how will that play in Yankeeland?
It’s not playing well with me now:( He sucks, plain and simple. And he’s just lucky he has Girardi for his manager and not Valentine.
Um, it won’t play well…
Steve L. wrote:
As I’ve said each and every time you’ve posed a form of this question, A-Rod went through an unprecedented level of fan scrutiny and derision when things were going well so it’s not like the treatment he’ll receive while playing poorly will look, sound and feel that differently to him.
If you’re booed at home when you’re an MVP and the best player on the team why should you care if you’re booed at home when you’re not playing well?
Jim TreshFan wrote:
He already played for Joe Torre, who batted him eighth in a playoff game. Hard to see what Bobby Valentine could do to Rodriguez that would be more humiliating than that.
Al Leiter said something last night that really struck a chord with me: if you play for Bobby Valentine, you should listen only to what he says to you and ignore anything he says about you to the media. Hearing that, it made me think that a lot of what Valentine says can be completely ignored, that it’s said for the benefit of the Globe, the Herald, WEEI and ESPN.
Over his last 30 regular season games, Alex Rodriguez’ BA/OBP/SLG line is .205/.341/.348 (in 112 AB).
And of those last 30 regular season games, he was playing hurt in 19 of them. This year, he’s off to a slow start. Like Martin, Cano, and Teixiera.
It’s 11 games into the season.
Youkillis is hitting .176, Carlos Pena’s hitting .390, Ben Zobrist’s hitting .218, Jon Lester has an ERA of 5.82, Josh Beckett has an ERA of 5.68, Clay Buchholz has an ERA of 9.82, Alex Gordon’s hitting .140, Jose Bautista’s hitting .222, Chris Young’s hitting .410, Aramis Ramirez is hitting .103, and Ryan Zimmerman and Jose Reyes are hitting .217.
MJ Recanati wrote:
There is a difference. When you are playing well, and being booed, you can wash away the boos with the thought “I can never make these people happy if they are going to boo me when I am playing like this…”
But, when you suck, and it’s obvious, and you’re not used to sucking, the booing is just another thing to mess with your head.
Evan3457 wrote:
I hear you. I use the same defense when someone wants to point a finger at the poor numbers that Thurman Munson posted in 1980. I have to remind them that he was dead that year.
Steve L. wrote:
Not a very apt comparison. Mickey Mantle 1965-1968 is an accurate comparison, if, in fact, A-Rod is in a decline that’s not going to stop.
Steve L. wrote:
Rodriguez should’ve figured that out by now
@ Steve L.:
Like I said before, and as Raf said directly above, A-Rod has already learned — quite painfully, I might add — that he can never please New Yorkers. I think he’s accepted that and has moved on. I really don’t see how booing him now will affect him. I have to assume he’s immune to the booing and has made peace with the fact that he’ll retire as a guy that just never connected with the great majority of fans.
I can’t stand Arod but I’ll give him till June to see if he can pick it up. It’s like I said about Jeter last year when so many said he was “washed up”. Give him (and Tex and Cano) some time to settle in.
redbug wrote:
I’m confused by this statement…What do you plan to do in June? He’s got 6 guaranteed years left at $20+ million per.
I mean..that’s it, we’re stuck with him for better or worse.
redbug wrote:
Who knows, maybe Jeter got some “help” in the offseason…
Scouts are saying he’s got a faster swing than he’s had in years and it’s been a long while since he’s gotten out of the box this quick.
Seems a bit unnatural at age 38. Just sayin’.
Corey Italiano wrote:
And that says it all. If you think it’s ugly now, it’s gonna get alot uglier before it’s done. We have the Steinbrothers and Levine to thank for that, those bumbling idiots.
Corey Italiano wrote:
I honestly can’t fathom Jeter being that stupid.
LMJ229 wrote:
Not saying he is or isn’t (or that he did or didn’t). All I’ll say is that (1) nothing would surprise me and (2) I never underestimate the stupidity factor (if we have to call it that) of athletes whose egos are generally ill-equiped to cope with failure.