Very well said.
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Very well said.
Without that 50-homer regular season, his team wouldn't have even been playing in October.Quote:
What use is a 50-homer regular season come October?
didn't you know HGM ALL REAL Yankees have that power, how the heck do you think they have financed those 200 mill per year payrolls??seesh:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
further more it is exactly WHY A-Rod isn't a real Yankee and a hindrance to his team, he can't **** gold therefore he actually costs the team money and is a drain on their resources. If A Rod would stop being so selfish and have a goldacolonoscopy so he could carry his own weight then the yankees could afford to go out and get enough quality players to buy er I mean earn that championship
True good Regular Season Player but **** Post-Season Player
No, this is not true. At all.Quote:
Originally Posted by BM_MAN
lol just look at his post season numbers since joining the Yankees,ROTFL :DQuote:
No, this is not true. At all.
108 plate appearances, 94 at bats, 14 walks, 23 hits, 4 homers, 9 RBI, 15 runs, 6 doublesQuote:
Originally Posted by FRENCHREDSOX
.245/.342/.436
Nothing spectacular, but not horrible.
I see two great series, two bad series, and one mediocre series.
And also, there's more to the postseason than the Yankees.
Alex Rodriguez is not a bad postseason player.
It is dependent on how you define a "bad post season player";After the LAST regular season (.314 /.422 /.645) those numbers look very poor,IMHO.Also when Cashman/George traded for him it was for his season & post season bat n play.Since,joining the Yankees,he has (& I think most Yankee fans would agree here) failed to deliver in October.Quote:
108 plate appearances, 94 at bats, 14 walks, 23 hits, 4 homers, 9 RBI, 15 runs, 6 doubles
.245/.342/.436
Nothing spectacular, but not horrible.
I see two great series, two bad series, and one mediocre series.
And also, there's more to the postseason than the Yankees.
Alex Rodriguez is not a bad postseason player.
So since Being a Yankee he is hitting BA .245 way down on the .315 & has 4 HRs in 94 ABs...(roughly 4%) whereas in 2007 he was hitting at 9.26%.Quote:
ear Round Tm Opp WLser G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS SH SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
2004 ALDS NYY MIN W 4 19 3 8 3 0 1 3 2 1 .421 .476 .737 2 1 0 0 0
2004 ALCS NYY BOS L 7 31 8 8 2 0 2 5 4 6 .258 .378 .516 0 0 0 0 2
2005 ALDS NYY LAA L 5 15 2 2 1 0 0 0 6 5 .133 .381 .200 1 1
2006 ALDS NYY DET L 4 14 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 .071 .071 .071 0 0
2007 ALDS NYY CLE L 4 15 2 4 0 0 1 1 2 6 .267 .353 .467 0 0 0 0 0
A player who has poor numbers over a statistically significant length of time. 147 at bats is not statistically significant. Calling Alex Rodriguez a poor postseason player based on 147 at bats is akin to calling J.J. Hardy a great May player because of his 114 at bats this May.Quote:
Originally Posted by FRENCHREDSOX
It's 147 at bats. In small sample sizes, there is great statistical variance.Quote:
After the LAST regular season those numbers look very poor,IMHO.
Did you know that THIS VERY MAY in 102 at bats, Alex Rodriguez hit .235/.361/.422, nearly identical to how he has performed in 94 at bats in October with the Yankees?
Is Alex Rodriguez a poor May player? No. He had a streak of 102 at bats that weren't as good as his overall numbers. Every single player in the history of baseball has stretches of at bats that don't match his overall levels.
It was because he's one of, if not the best, hitter in the game. Postseason or otherwiseQuote:
Also when Cashman/George traded for him it was for his season & post season bat n play.
Really? So I guess that .320/.393/.600 line with 3 homers and 8 RBI that he had in the 2004 postseason didn't happen in October? He's played in 5 postseason series for the Yankees. One he was a monster in, one he did really well in, one that he did good in, one that he sucked in, and one that he sucked but still got on base.Quote:
Since,joining the Yankees,he has (& I think most Yankee fans would agree here) failed to deliver in October.
That means two bad series out of 5.
Did you know that Derek Jeter has had 5 really bad series? Did you know that in the series in which he was christened with the "Mr. November" nickname, he hit .148/.179/.259? And that followed an ALCS in which he hit .118/.200/.118?
All the "Alex Rodriguez is a choker" stuff is just pure nonsense.
Yes. I just posted his numbers as a Yankee in the post right above yours. I am not saying that they're as good as his regular season numbers. They're not. Having 90 at bats in which his numbers are not as good as his numbers in the previous 600 at bats does not mean that he is a bad postseason player, or a choker. It means he's a baseball player, subject to the normal statistical variances that every single baseball player goes through.Quote:
So since Being a Yankee he is hitting BA .245 way down on the .315 & has 4 HRs in 94 ABs...(roughly 4%) whereas in 2007 he was hitting at 9.26%.
Is Mike Schmidt a bad postseason player? Career .235 BA in 264 ABs.
Did he perform badly in the postseason? Yes. Does this mean that there was some problem that he had where he was unable to perform in the postseason? Not necessarily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach Owens
Regardless, Alex Rodriguez does not even have bad postseason numbers.
I think his "struggles" are because of the pressure he's getting. It reminds me of Rudy York, a first baseman for the Tigers back in the 1940s. York, who had an outstanding season the year before (1939), for some reson unexplained, got booed unmercifully by the fans. It absolutly shattered his confidence, and going into the All Star Break, his BA was below .200. Finally, the Sporting News and a local Detroit newspaper came to his rescue, begging the fans to stop booing him. They did and miraculously, his went on a hitting tear and finished the year with a .316 BA, 33 homers and 134 RBI. Maybe Yankee fans shouldn't of booed A-Rod so much.
OK I am a diehard Yanks fan who was excited by A-Rod's arrival. I think A-Rod is a fantastic and phenomenal player....I think he has not been that great in the Playoffs. He has sucked at times. However this year Jeter and Posada both were horrible.
Did you grow up or go to college in New York?
No PA actually but started following the Yanks in 1978 when the first 2 cards I pulled from a baseball pack were Guidry and Lyle....I was 8, liked the cards and then found out the team was really good!