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billmac91
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A-Rod is prob the most overrated player in any sport.....for the money he makes theres no way he's worth it......i saw a breakdown of the multiple pitchers you could have for his base salary this year and it was ridiculous
Why pay this guy that much, when all he does is feast on average pitching all year and suck in the playoffs
And yes Jeter and many others played crappy along w/ A-Rod but A-Rod is the highest paid player and considered by many the best baseball player ever....which is absurd as well
Why pay this guy that much, when all he does is feast on average pitching all year and suck in the playoffs
And yes Jeter and many others played crappy along w/ A-Rod but A-Rod is the highest paid player and considered by many the best baseball player ever....which is absurd as well
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the picture didn't work for you, did it?Wow, you are really a K-Rod advocate. Do you work for Scott Boras??
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Jason Giambi was the highest payed player this year for the Yankees.
That's OK though....he certainly lived up to all that money.
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MolGenBuckeye
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BuckeyeNation27;954940; said:
Well, according to the announcers during the ALDS, Giambi did produce for them "when he was healthy".
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The A-rod bashing gets quite absurd at times(that man milk poster is funny as hell though)
I understand he's struggled in the post season but if there is a better position player in baseball, show me some numbers and make an argument. Nobody is perfect but I'll take his consistent 300+ BA/40+HR/100+ RBI line with stellar glove work every year thank you very much.
BTW Billy Hatcher hit over .400 in the 1990 WS, anyone going to his HOF enshrinement ceremony? Its called small sample size and its never a good idea to make projections/assumptions based on 20-30 post season AB's vs 550-650 regular season ones.
I understand he's struggled in the post season but if there is a better position player in baseball, show me some numbers and make an argument. Nobody is perfect but I'll take his consistent 300+ BA/40+HR/100+ RBI line with stellar glove work every year thank you very much.
BTW Billy Hatcher hit over .400 in the 1990 WS, anyone going to his HOF enshrinement ceremony? Its called small sample size and its never a good idea to make projections/assumptions based on 20-30 post season AB's vs 550-650 regular season ones.
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methomps
an imbecility, a stupidity without name
billmac91;954915; said:
This got me wondering, so I did some number-crunching. Make of it what you will.
A-Rod regular season vs. Josh Beckett, CC Sabathia, John Lackey, Fausto Carmona, Kelvim Escobar, Justin Verlander, Miguel Batista, Roy Halladay, Paul Byrd, and Javier Vasquez:
59 of 210 (.281), 11 HR, 41 RBI, 26 BB, 67 SO
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Jaxbuck;955177; said:
Valid points...but John Cooper won a crapload of games here too, including some big ones (Notre Dame anyone?) but the reason he was busted on so much and eventually run out of town was...yep, he couldn't win the "games that counted", and he couldn't win a title with a team in 1998 that should never have even come close to losing a game. It's the post-season or big games or rivalries or whatever that counts to most people...when you play for the Yankees, you are going to go to the post-season, and if you suck there, you are going to get criticized. Validly so in my opinion. Is he a fantastic player? Sure. Is he the greatest ever? Not if he can't hit when it matters the most, in my opinion.
Returning to baseball, Craig Counsell isn't going to the HOF, but he was a World Series hero...Bill Buckner had almost 3000 hits, but all anyone remembers is a ball that went through his legs. Sports ain't fair, and life ain't fair...but they get paid a lot of money, and it comes with the territory.
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OCBucksFan
I won a math debate
Personally, I think A-Rod should get the hell out of there, there's a lot of owners that will pay for him, the Angels come to mind right off the bat, the Giants are cleaning house as well. The flack he's taken over the past years, moved to batting 8th, always being second best to Jeter, and still he put up the numbers he did this year just to somehow have people toss blame at him for the post season disaster.
I would so get the hell out of that mess and not deal with the New York media again, but then again, I don't make that kind of money, have that kind of skill or think like this guy does, so who knows.
I would so get the hell out of that mess and not deal with the New York media again, but then again, I don't make that kind of money, have that kind of skill or think like this guy does, so who knows.
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I'm just gearing up in case he ends up on the White SoxMaybe I should have quoted this one instead. Does all this A-Rod bashing make you want to throw up a little bit in your mouth??
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