Alex Rodriguez is god awful

[jfdeuce]

i just can't take it anymore. i just can't.

today: bottom 9th, 0 out, 1st and 2nd, down by 1. What does A-Rod do? That's right. He grounds into another DP. Granted the pitching staff blew a 4 run lead. But COME ON. IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET OUT, AT LEAST ****ING STRIKE OUT YOU ****ING ASSHOLE. If I were Girardi, I'm dead serious, I would stop starting him. You can't start a guy who doesn't produce when you desperately need him, I don't care how much he makes.

I don't know too much about how Arod is playing this year I haven't watched too many Yankee games. But I know what type of player Arod is. Last year he did well in Clutch situations I beleive. Throughout his career he has choked in the playoffs. I imagine if Girardi wants to keep his job he has to play him. If he benches Arod he probably won't be around long. Course with them not playing well this year He might lose his job after the season.

[Dry1313]

ARod's DP in the 9th was such ridiculous luck for Jose Bautista...it's not even funny

[Foster]

Yeah I agree with Dry, that was a pretty lucky play by Bautista. Was I glad it happened, yeah, but I still thin it was lucky.

But it goes to show that stat someone posted in the "MVP" thread, you know the one about ARod have something like 2 RBI's this season in the 8th, and 9th innings combined...is much more believable than you would think.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

Yeah I agree with Dry, that was a pretty lucky play by Bautista. Was I glad it happened, yeah, but I still thin it was lucky.

But it goes to show that stat someone posted in the "MVP" thread, you know the one about ARod have something like 2 RBI's this season in the 8th, and 9th innings combined...is much more believable than you would think.

yeah i posted that. michael kay said it during a game. i was shocked, but it is quite believable. it goes to show what kind of season arod's having. he needs to take every other year off

[Kingdom]

What were ARod's late inning stats with Texas and Seattle?

[jfdeuce]

What were ARod's late inning stats with Texas and Seattle?

Well I just went and looked at his stats from his years with Seattle and Texas. From what I see throughout his career he hits better with nobody on base. But he still hits reasonably well with men on base. I think we can all agree he's a very talented hitter. I think he tries to hard when men on base. His postseason stats are poor. He's only had 2 good postseasons 2000 and 2004. So that's 5 postseasons he has hit poorly. Seems to me he chokes under pressure. Probably tries to do too much. We all know playing on the Yankees he's under allot more pressure to produce than he was with Seattle and Texas and dealing with pressure is not his strong point. Pretty much it comes down to the Yankees made another mistake. Seems to me they don't know how to spend there money. They give a ton of money to guys who don't produce for them. Some players can't deal with the constant pressures from the media, fans, and Hank & George. I think Arod is one of those players.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

At this point last year, he had 38 8th and 9th inning RBI's. Now he has 2. A bit of a drop off there if you ask me

[nyjunc]

Last year was his ONLY good clutch REGULAR SEASON for us but he's back to his normal ways this year and of course as great as he was in the reg season he was awful again in the postseason. He's the most overrated athlete on the planet. Only ARod could ground into 5-4-3 DP w/ 2 on and 0 out in a clutch situation, he's so awful he couldn't even get the runner to 3rd on a DP. We knew he was hitting into a DP, I was hoping for just a K, but we assumed Jeter would end up on 3rd and a WP could tie the game. It's so sad it's comical at this point and this man got a RAISE last year! he was already the highest paid player in the game and has 1 RBI in his last 16 postseason games(1 less than Matsuzaka in his ONE game in the WS last year) yet he got a raise!!! and now we are stuck w/ him for NINE more years!!!!

[Porter]

 I Split          G   GS    PA    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  IBB  SO  HBP  SH  SF ROE GDP  SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  BAbip tOPS+ Split
+-+------------+----+----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------------+
   2 outs, RISP  861       1073   881       241  34   2  50  347  167  39  209  25   0   0  11   0   27   2  .274  .404  .487  .890  .307    88 2 outs, RISP 
   Late & Close  899       1198  1023       286  61   3  64  213  146  25  244  16   4   9  16  31   48  12  .280  .375  .533  .908  .307    89 Late & Close 
   Tie Game     1644       2554  2167       647 134   5 152  417  329  21  480  37   7  14  31  49   78  20  .299  .398  .575  .973  .320   102 Tie Game     
   Within 1 R   1901       4499  3839      1168 227  11 275  767  543  44  820  73  14  30  57  92  159  38  .304  .398  .584  .982  .322   103 Within 1 R   
   Within 2 R   1968       5902  5078      1524 283  14 344  981  684  54 1079  87  15  38  72 118  209  55  .300  .390  .565  .954  .320    98 Within 2 R   
   Within 3 R   1991       6914  5971      1819 332  18 417 1183  776  62 1255 105  16  46  83 139  235  60  .305  .391  .576  .967  .323   100 Within 3 R   
   Within 4 R   2002       7608  6579      2009 369  22 463 1326  835  65 1394 116  16  62  90 154  261  64  .305  .390  .579  .969  .323   100 Within 4 R   
   Margin > 4 R  767       1370  1199       372  57   4  83  257  132  14  227  23   0  16  19  34   20   2  .310  .385  .572  .957  .319    98 Margin > 4 R

Those are his career stats in clutch situations.


Now compare that with Jeter. Who is considered captain clutch.

I Split          G   GS    PA    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB  IBB  SO  HBP  SH  SF ROE GDP  SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  BAbip tOPS+ Split
+-+------------+----+----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+---+----+---+---+---+---+---+----+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------------+
   2 outs, RISP  803       1006   859       271  43   7  18  345  134  17  191  13   0   0  11   0   28   3  .315  .416  .445  .860  .389   105 2 outs, RISP 
   Late & Close  874       1217  1028       297  45   3  28  154  139  17  218  26  18   6  15  25   31   6  .289  .385  .420  .806  .341    91 Late & Close 
   Tie Game     1708       2831  2514       801 115  16  78  241  231   9  405  39  37  10  46  70   98  28  .319  .383  .470  .853  .354   102 Tie Game     
   Within 1 R   1881       4674  4156      1346 200  27 128  459  386  20  680  64  50  18  66 113  158  50  .324  .388  .477  .866  .362   105 Within 1 R   
   Within 2 R   1925       6084  5390      1724 274  37 153  634  522  22  893  83  63  26  96 136  196  59  .320  .387  .470  .856  .359   103 Within 2 R   
   Within 3 R   1947       7030  6219      1984 316  41 170  755  612  26 1043  98  69  32 120 151  236  70  .319  .387  .465  .852  .360   102 Within 3 R   
   Within 4 R   1956       7692  6805      2173 358  47 184  849  672  28 1154 109  71  35 129 165  255  72  .319  .388  .467  .854  .362   102 Within 4 R   
   Margin > 4 R  728       1306  1140       336  52  10  19  144  129   1  211  28   1   8  25  26   18   2  .295  .378  .408  .786  .345    87 Margin > 4 R

Now tell me where there is a huge difference in the their numbers other than the obvious HR/SLG. The BA and OBP are very similar.

[Porter]

Derek Jeter Career Batting Splits - Baseball-Reference PI

Alex Rodriguez Career Batting Splits - Baseball-Reference PI


If you notice the clutch numbers. They aren't too far off.

[Halladay_is_God]

no pressure HR again today

[Kingdom]

Last year was his ONLY good clutch REGULAR SEASON for us but he's back to his normal ways this year and of course as great as he was in the reg season he was awful again in the postseason. He's the most overrated athlete on the planet. Only ARod could ground into 5-4-3 DP w/ 2 on and 0 out in a clutch situation, he's so awful he couldn't even get the runner to 3rd on a DP. We knew he was hitting into a DP, I was hoping for just a K, but we assumed Jeter would end up on 3rd and a WP could tie the game. It's so sad it's comical at this point and this man got a RAISE last year! he was already the highest paid player in the game and has 1 RBI in his last 16 postseason games(1 less than Matsuzaka in his ONE game in the WS last year) yet he got a raise!!! and now we are stuck w/ him for NINE more years!!!!

Wasn't he your best friend and God a few months ago?

[nyjunc]

Wasn't he your best friend and God a few months ago?

You obviously haven't read my posts.

Derek Jeter Career Batting Splits - Baseball-Reference PI

Alex Rodriguez Career Batting Splits - Baseball-Reference PI


If you notice the clutch numbers. They aren't too far off.

Jeter is allowed to have a poor clutch season b/c he has done it so often for us. Alex never has been really clutch for us outside of the '07 regular season. Jeter has done it in october over and over and over again, Alex hasn't. If Alex built up his credibility w/ great octobers like jeter has then no one would be saying a peep about him right now but this is a guy who has never really done it for us when we needed him most. The man has ONE postseason RBI in his last 16 postseason games!

One mopre thing, now that the yanks are really out of it ARod will go on a tear and finish off the '08 season strong. I guarnatee it. He's always been great w/ no pressure which is why some of his "clutch" #s pre-Yankees look good.

[ljshorty89]

But if you notice, the CAREER clutch stats are the same, not just one year

[nyjunc]

But if you notice, the CAREER clutch stats are the same, not just one year

Most of his non-Yankee career has been spent on non-playoff teams. He is great w/o the pressure of having to win. hew played in 3 postseasons in 9 years prior to joining the Yankees(really 2 in 8 since he didn't play alot in 1995). Jeter has always played under the microscope of a pennant race. I would rather have Jose Molina at the plate in a big spot than ARod, that should tell you something. No man has been more responsible for sending us home early in October than ARod and he is the man most responsible for this non-playoff season. he just set a Yankee record for GIDPs in a month- think about the long history of the Yankees and now ARod has the most GIDPs in a single month and it came in a month nwhere we needed him to play at his best.

Again, I guarantee you he'll be great down the stretch in meaningless games.