Yeah but he will have more big hits. Thats the way he is. What A-Rod has done (last night excluded), is just... weird. It is baffling.
From Tom Verducci's latest article:
In those 59 at-bats, Rodriguez:
• went 8-for-59, a .136 batting average.
• batted with a total of 38 runners on base and left every single one of them on base. Not one did he drive in. He went 0-for-27, including 11 strikeouts, in at-bats with runners on.
• went 0-for-12 with a total of 17 runners in scoring position, driving in none of them.
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SI.com - Writers - Tom Verducci: Is A-Rod done in the Bronx? - Tuesday October 9, 2007 2:32AM
Small sample size? Yeah, but it is just crazy. And lets face it, as bad as those GDPs were for Jeter, those two strike outs for A-Rod against Byrd were just as disheartening.
But this is going in the wrong direction. They win as a team and they lose as a team. You can't sit around throw blame at players - great, HOF, players at that - for not doing this and that. They will come through eventually. What the team really needs to get fixed is that starting pitching, and that is why Joba Chamberlain needs to be in the rotation next year ladies and gentlemen.