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Originally Posted by NadoBrave
To me, he's a major albatross as the Yankmees learned. 0 WS rings since his arrival & a no show in the PS despite his regular season performance... Hmm remind you of someone else in the NL? I want more for my $$ than that.
My prediction: he won't leave NY as no one is gonna pony up Borass type money if he opts as he won't get that in the open market with the Yankmees out of the picture.
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Complete and total crockery, propagated by the morons of the NY media.
From 2004 through 2007, A-Rod has played in 24 postseason games for the Yankees. In those 24 games, his line is .255/.417/.447/.864, with 4 HRs, 9 RBIs, and 15 runs scored. What jumps out at you there? Yes, his average, power, and RBIs are all down from where they are in a typical A-Rod regular season.... but his runs and OBP are almost the same. That's because in his postseason play with the Yankees, A-Rod is being walked more than 12% of the time. He's being pitched around, and then getting trashed for taking the walks.
And what of the other notable Yankees during this same period?
His Holiness, the Mighty Captain Clutch, King of Postseason Hits and Lord of All He Surveys, Derek Jeter: 24 postseason games in that period. Line: .291/.348/.466/.814. 4 HRs, 16 RBIs, 19 Rs. So the Mighty Jeter has the same number of HRs with more runs and ribbies in the postseason for those 4 years... but a lower OPS by more than 50 points. It's a lot easier to drive in runs when the pitchers aren't scared of you. A-Rod has 5 more walks than Jeter in 2 fewer plate appearances.
Matsui: 24 games, .316/.387/.551/.928, 4 HRs, 15 ribbies, 21 runs. Who knew Hideki Matsui had been the Yankees postseason MVP the last four years? I'll admit it... not me.
Posada: 24 games, .264/.387/.379/.766, 2 HRs, 6 RBIs, 12 runs. The worst so far.
Bernie: 17 games. .105/.128/.303/.431, 3 HRs, 14 RBIs, 8 runs. Okay, this trumps Posada. Of course, Williams was about 523 years old from '04-'06. Then again, Posada is about 543 in Catcher Years now, so that's probably a wash.
So guess what? In the four years Albatross-Rod has been a Yankee, he has been their second best hitter in the postseason, behind only Matsui. Which leaves everyone with two (sensible) possible choices to explain this: 1.) Blame something in the clubhouse atmosphere for the Yankees non-clutchitude in general, or 2.) admit that nearly every hitter in the history of the game has numbers worse in the postseason than in the regular season, and nearly every pitcher has a worse ERA, just because the competition in postseason play is much tougher than what you face in regular season play.
And if you want to explain the Yanks postseason losses, you look at their pitching. Their hitting has been fine, Choke-Rod included.