People Who Love A-Rod Too Much




			Thanks for the comments and keep em coming These are the positive things people had to say about A-Rod

	trueyank08 Do see how bad our lineup is without arod, no one else can cleanup like arod can. best player in the game, i hope u never update this site and i hope u dont watch the yanks either you don't deserve them cause your spoiled yikes Really? Really? you want to trade the best hitter in the game? Really? And all the october stuff check out His Royal Highness Cap'n Jetes past 3 october numbers. Yikes, you are stupid. But by all means trade him, I hate the Yanks, nothing would please me more Robert D Why are you all over A-Rod when he was the only guy who produced much of anything in last years playoffs. Captain Yankee, the deified Jeter had two hits all series against the Indians, and Wang looked like Byun-Hyun Kim did against the Yankees a few years ago. It's idiots like you that think Jeter is a great SS all around and that A-rod is the reason for this teams demise. Forget the fact that without them they would finish around where TB finishes. Also forget that their starting pitching is only slightly better than my sisters little league team. It's all A-Rod's fault. It doesn't matter that his career playoff numbers are great from his time with Seattle. It only matters that in 3 years and a very small sample size A-Rod wasn't able to overcome some of the worst pitching the Yankees have had since the 80's. It's his fault that no one else hit well during each of the series also because of intangibles and "chemistry." Personally I hope they do something stupid a! nd unload A-Rod in a very inefficient ways so they can return to the ways of the 1980's when they were horrible with only players well liked like Mattingly and such. ruben salinas a rod is bas a$$ Andrew R. He's good, you're a fucking moron. A-Rod's WARP3 (Wins Above Replacement Player) was 13.7. World Series MVP Mike Lowell only had a 9.6, I believe. Without those 4 games, the Yankees might not even make the play-offs. Todd Have to keep writing. Saying A-Rod only delivers "personal statistics" is dumb. What he does to help his stats also helps the team. It's not like he's a point guard who hogs the ball so he can score 20 pts/night, though he shoots like crap. The big hits he gets might only seem important in close games. What should he do when the Yanks are up eight runs late, bunt? As for "disappointments in October", it's true his stats in 40 playoff games are worse than his stats from 1900 regular-season games. It seems to me that either 1) he's not as good in the playoffs, though still decent, or 2) his playoff numbers will eventually match his regular-season numbers, which means monster playoff series in the future. You obviously think #1 is true, but I'd go with #2. Either way, those personal stats will help you get to the playoffs. How A-Rod is treated reminds me of John Elway or Peyton Manning. People said they couldn't win the big one, then when they won the Super Bowl, they magically became great champions. No, they were always great, but things finally worked out so they could win a championship. And those guys were QB's, who handled the ball on every offensive play and passed half the time. A-Rod's one of nine hitters/fielders, and he doesn't pitch. He can't win it by himself, but having him gives teams a HUGE advantage. sjb 08 hes back you and your website are a failure. CYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Long Live AROD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sjb 08 are u serious. what else does he have to do. pitch? he saved the season and u still want him to dominate in october to gain your respect. please the cubs want arod so they can win a ws. arod should go to the cubs hed be the best athlete in chicago since jordan and cub fans will treat him with the respect he deserves. im a yankee fan but fans like u give the rest of us a bad name. u should kiss the ground arod walks on You homos Alex Rodriguez is debatebly the best player of all time. And you want to trade him? Nice. Smart. You winners. timmy! Greatest player to ever live! Bob R. He is the best player in the league and if you can't appreciate that then you are not a real yankee fan. Clearly arod has a fragile ego, we can all admit that. So long as the fans support him, he is a good player though. We as fans must support our players through good times and bad, regardless of how much money they make. Face it, he makes more in a year than most will see in 3 lifetimes. Get over it. Get over it and support the best player on the best team in baseball! Come on, we are all Yankee Fans here! Let's leave the negativity at the door and support Alex Rodriguez! bob please trade him to the phillies. A-Rod is a great ball player. I can only hope Cashmen is stupid enough to trade him. Think philly.... David Are you insane? Alex Rodriguez is the best player of his generation, and arguably one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Your idea is to trade him based on what, 20 at bats? How does that possibly make sense? Never mind the fact that last year, the entire offense failed -- how many "clutch hits" did Matsui, Sheffield, or Giambi have? There were a lot of 1-fors after that Tigers series. More importantly, it wasn't like we had the same pitching staff as the championship Yankees. A weaker starting rotation and a much weaker bullpen all contributed to the loss. Remember, too, that although statistics tell the tale, statistics, to be accurate, rely on large sample sets. A-Rod is having one of those amazing years that you dream about a player on your team having. And, despite the ridiculous-ness of the term "clutch hitting," he's come up pretty big this year. At the end of the day, the Yankees already have some good, young pitchers (Hughes, Kennedy, Chamberlain -- who will all compete for starting jobs next year). What they won't have if they trade A-Rod is a Hall of Fame third baseman. Seriously: Name one third baseman in the majors that the Yankees could legitimately acquire and fill in the production of Alex? Here's the thing: you can't. Remember, too, that for the Yankees, money isn't an issue! Since when has Steinbrenner ever seemed concerned about cutting payroll? If there are young pitchers to get in the offseason, you better believe he's going to try to go out and get them. But the team doesn't need to trade A-Rod in order to do so. So unless your a Red Sox fan (which is realistically one of the few teams that could afford him -- remember that he was actually going to be traded there before the deal went through), this site makes no sense. It's simply anger and stupidity based on a knee-jerk reaction that has little to do with baseball and everything to do with not getting exactly what you wanted when you wanted it. I'm sorry, Veruca Salt. Matt (a Sox fan) how stupid are you? nothing would make me happier than to see May-Rod on the Red Sox. He is the best player in the history of the game, and you want to trade him so Torre can butcher some young kid's arm? Brian He's the best baseball player in the world and another team is paying for nearly half of his salary. I don't get it. .280 .362 .485 career in the post season. Who would you trade him for? Austin This website is moronic. Trade A-Rod to the Royals, if you don't want him. He's probably going to be one of the top five greatest players of all time. And if you think he's not "clutch," well, I guess you weren't watching in April. A-Rod is a great player and I'm going to laugh when he shows it off this postseason. Bryce You do realize the Yankees aren't getting to the playoffs without A-Rod right? But ship him off, trade him, let him go at the end of the year. I'll be happy to watch him swinging and playing SS for my Giants next year. If he's really that much of a "choker" in the playoffs bench him in the f#cking playoffs. Moron. Angela All you A-Rod-hating Yankee fans are idiots. One player can not single handedly prevent a team from doing well in the playoffs. If you really want someone to blame, or to get rid of someone not earning his paycheck it should be Derek Jeter. He is the most overrated player in the history of the game with the worst defense of any shortstop in the league. If you don't want A-Rod, we would be happy to take him and we would appreciate what he did for us. Angela (A Red Sox fan) Chris Who would you rather have up in the bottom of the ninth of a world series game when you are behind? A. Charlie Hayes B. Aaron Boone C. Scott Broscious D. Alex Rodriguez If you answered D, you're wrong. Why would you want the best player of last century batting? Remember when Aaron Boone hit that Home Run? That guy was CU-LUTCH. Hayes? That guy knew how to catch a pop-up in foul territory. Broscious? Or how ever you spell his irrelavant name? That guy was white man hustle, he'd definitely chop one off the plate and hustle it out! A-Rod, that guy ain't no clutch! Who cares if it's a made up ability based on our emotions as fans! Who cares that he has always been a better hitter and fielder then Jeter! He don't wear no C on his shirt! He ain't no clutch! BOONE IS CLUTCH. Who cares that he never did anything like that in his 97-year career before that! Thanks to idiots like you, the Red Sox are going to take the division for the next 10 years. Take off your stupid blinders. Seyal Really? A-Rod is why Texas and Seattle didn't win as many games? Where is Texas and Seattle now? Texas is in last and Seattle has a worse record than the Yanks (who have A-Rod). So if A-Rod makes teams lose, why isn't Texas and Seattle doing better than the Yankees? Because it takes more than A-Rod to win or lose. Baseball is a TEAM game, and yes, that applies even with A-Rod does badly. 2000 Seattle had a team ERA of 4.50, 2001 Seattle had a team ERA of 3.50. 2001 Seattle had Brett Boone who somewhere managed to hit 37 HR out of the blue (and never did it again). 2000 Seattle also wasted 300 AB on 41 year old Rickey Henderson and 481 awful AB from McLemore (.669 OPS!). So you replace Henderson with Ichiro, McLemore with career year Boone, get a better season out of Wilson, Olerud, and Cameron, and have the entire pitching staff have the year of their collective lives, and yet you say A-Rod was the only reason they won 23 more games? That doesn't even make sense. Why didn't Texas win with A-Rod. Oh, I don't know, making ranking DEAD LAST in the AL in ERA had something to do with that. Maybe the failure of Chan Ho Park had something to do with that - he who's best Texas ERA was 5.46. Maybe having "aces" of the staff who's best quality is keeping a sub-5.00 ERA. Don't blame A-Rod for the fact the Texas GM was ignorant/stupid/delusional enough to think the A-Rod can somehow lower the team's ERA with his offensive prowess. And let's look at the post A-Rod Rangers record. Yes, they won 89 the next year...and then are about to post 3 consecutive losing records to go with the 3 consecutive losing records they had with A-Rod. Wow. A team that can't pitch, still can't pitch, but got one decent year, has 6 losing records out of 7. Yeah, A-Rod was really holding Texas back, huh? I guess he was on the mound for the no-better-than-8th-in-the-AL ERA Texas has put up in the last 7 years? As far as putting up numbers when they don't count? Last time I checked - the regular season counted. It's like, how they decide who makes the playoffs...or something. The 2004 LCS - Jeter stunk too, or do you think a .200 BA with a .233 SLG is good? In fact, the whole team has to stink when you give up a 3-0 lead in 4 games. 2005: So it's A-Rod's fault the pitching dug the team into a hole? Yeah, A-Rod ended it with a DP. Of course, if the pitching was better - maybe the Yanks win - or maybe if someone else actually, you know, scored some runs too? But no, let's pick on A-Rod because he was the only one who failed that day. 2006: Like you said the WHOLE TEAM struggled against Tiger pitching, but yet - let's pick on A-Rod because he makes a lot of money (what baseball player doesn't?) 2007: Yankees need young pitching? Then why not jump on Cashman for signing 44 year old Roger Clemens and his average 4.44 ERA? Why not jump on him for signing Pettite. Last time I checked, 35 isn't young in the baseball world. Why not trade Rivera now? He's 37 - maybe get a few young relievers for him? Or better yet, why not just be PATIENT and wait for guys like Tyler Clippard, Philip Hughes, and Joba Chamberlin to develop. There's 3/5 of your rotation right there. The AL East isn't going anywhere. Toronto, Baltimore, and Tampa all stink. The Central is a mess, the West doesn't have any star teams - it's not like the Yankees need to make a move or be shut out of the playoffs for the next 5+ years. Besides, if it's a known fact A-Rod is going to walk, just how much did you think the Yanks would have gotten in return for him for a July to September rental? A concerned citizen Wow, I can only hope the Yankee's front office shares your views. I'll trade you Juan Pierre for ARod right now. That should be a good trade! It's young pitching you want? How about D.J. Houlton for ARod, maybe another pitcher. Here's hoping the Yankees get rid of ARod and all the other productive players on the team. I was happy when they were languishing in the cellar. Hope you get your message through to the Cashman. I can't stand the Yankees and am excitedly waiting for the days when they don't even make the playoffs. Todd Fans like you have acheived the impossible. You've made me actually WANT to see the Yankees win the World Series, with A-Rod leading the way. Just to see how you take it. A-Rod only hits well when you have a big lead? Who usually gives you the big lead in the first place? And unless Wang or Pettitte are pitching, you need all the insurance runs you can get. A-Rod takes too many walks under pressure? Matsui, Posada, and Giambi hit behind him! That's a second "heart of the order"! Can't they get it done, with the pitcher now under pressure with another guy with speed on the bases? They're all paid like star players. Instead of tradearod.com, how about tradejeter.com? I know he's got 4 rings, but none since 2000. Aren't Yankees' fans the "what have you done for me lately" type? Isn't Jeter's winning aura enough to overcome A-Rod's negative vibes? Maybe all the magic's gone. If some of my fellow Green Bay Packer fans can wonder if it's time for Brett Favre to retire, you can think about trading Jeter. But honestly, I don't know if you could unload Jeter at his salary. If you offered either A-Rod or Jeter and pay all of their salary except for $16 million/year, who would GM's want? I'm guessing A-Rod. With your current pitching staff, he's the Yankees' best hope to win another World Series. You're just too blinded by trivial things to see it. Clare Websites like this make me embarrassed to call myself a Yankee fan. We are watching one of the greatest players of all time in Alex Rodriguez and to actually hear/read about "Yankee fans" wanting to trade him is mind-boggling. The Yankees wouldn't have even made it to the post-season in 2005 if it weren't for him... and they certainly wouldn't be leading the wild card race in 2007 if not for him. Their post-season failures the last few years do not rest solely on his shoulders, but rather, on the entire team. It doesn't help that their starting pitching disappears when it's needed most. Pitching wins championships. Jerry Wow, you really are just too stupid to appreciate the greatest player of this generation when he's sitting right in front of your face. A-Rod isn't perfect, but he's about as close as any baseball player comes. I hope he signs with the Red Sox just so that he can pound the Yankees every couple of weeks. Now lets break down how stupid you are on a point-by-point basis: -"I'm happy he's getting his FORTH chance at the playoffs" --Way to put your third-grade spelling error in caps! It's spelled with a U. (Fourth) -"What would you say to a pitcher with 8 post season games, a 3-0 record, 19.1 innings pitched, 17 hits, 15 strike outs, and 1.4 ERA? Sound good? That pitcher is Carl Pavano." --First, small sample size. --Second, Carl Pavano is/was a somewhat talented pitcher, but was never consistently better than average. He never put up back-to-back seasons with an ERA below the league average. A-Rod has finished in the top 15 of the MVP ballot 10 times in the last 11 years. -"Why then bother putting up with another year of distraction, club house tension and media/fan scrutiny just to watch him walk away next year and have the Yankees get stuck with nothing?" --Because without him you are 10 games out of the Wild Card race (10.2 WARP3) and October numbers mean nothing at all. -"TRADE HIM now and get something in return, something they need like more young pitching." --The Yankees HAVE young pitching. Maybe you don't actually watch games, that would explain a lot. -"Alex started strong in 2006, he even won player of the month for May, which just reinforces his nickname May-Rod. The rest of the season was average at best..." --A-Rod's 2006 Splits: ----First Half-- .282/.390/.505 19 HR 65 RBI ----Second Half- .300/.394/.545 16 HR 56 RBI -"The Angels were up 5-3 in the ninth inning. Jeter got on and up came A-Rod with a chance to tie game. He hit into a double play. Of all the things he could have done, that was the absolute worst." --You're still mad about a ground ball from 2005? Are you kidding me? Are you still mad at Mike Mussina who gave up all 5 runs in just 2 2/3 innings in that game? Do you have another site for him? -"And I don't know about the stats but I'd be willing to bet he has more "under pressure" walks than any other player in the league (excluding intentional walks)." --A-Rod is a very good hitter in all Late & Close situations (7th or later with the batting team tied, ahead by one, or the tying run at least on deck): ----Career Late & Close- 1110 PA .277/.373/.537 62 HR 135 BB ----2007 Late & Close- 68 PA .328/.412/.707 6 HR 7 BB -" However, the Yankees had no problem making the playoffs for years before A-Rod arrived. The big difference of course being that their post seasons seemed to last a little bit longer...bring in some player(s) who know how to win it when it counts." --Would you rather have Robin Ventura? Scott Brosius? Aaron Boone? Who on Earth would be a better option at 3rd base? Please tell me where you've seen a better player than A-Rod who you could possibly "bring in" through Free Agency or trade. zlionsfan If you honestly believe that the biggest problem that the Yankees have is Alex Rodriguez, or that he is to blame for the Yankees' loss to the Tigers in the 2006 playoffs, or, for that matter, that he's somehow responsible for any other bad things that have happened to the team, then I salute you and hope that you are able to attract tens of thousands of Yankees fans to your cause. If your efforts contribute to A-Rod's eventual departure from New York, that would be an incredible accomplishment, and you deserve to be remembered for that. P.S. Extra credit if you can get him to sign with the Tigers. Drew Idiot, Who would you trade him for and why? He's the best player in baseball by a good margin. Texas is still paying half his salary. Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter and Mike Mussina are all paid more by the Yankees ballclub. Since those three guys don't produce very much, wouldn't it make a bit more sense to trade them instead, and keep the underpaid guy that single-handedly kept you in the race this year? Signed, Non-idiot Resto-blaggo Have you ever -EVER- heard of such a thing as small sample size? Does it occur to you that maybe A-Rod was unlucky? Do you have any idea how poorly Jeter hit against Boston in the 2004 ALCS? Do you have any valid reason for why A-Rod would do poorly in the postseason (which he in fact, has not, if you consider the 2004 ALDS and ALCS as the postseason, which clearly you do not) besides luck? Because you don't give one. I can't wait until the 2008 Red Sox, riding high on the wave of a World Series title the previous year, come into the Toilet and have their shortstop smash three home runs off of Phillip Hughes. Because he'll be A-Rod, and Yankee fans will realize that they destroy every once-in-a-lifetime player with postseason bullshit. Mr. Six Right off the bat... obviously you've never heard of a no-trade clause... which A-Rod has. The New York Yankees couldn't trade him without his permission if they wanted to, and luckily for us, Brian Cashman very plainly knows more about winning baseball games than the author(s) of this wonky site. The bottom line is that you don't improve your team by getting rid of the best all-around player in the game. Just because you've chosen to throw out the results of 1900 baseball games and focus on the results of 16 of them that you've cherry-picked doesn't mean that Alex is a bad player... or unable to perform in the clutch. Do you honestly think that after playing almost 2,000 professional games, being the fastest in history to reach 500 homers and forging a path towards more all-time records than I can name by his career's end, he's shitting the bed over a wild card game? And another thing, you continue to state the fact that the Yankees are in some kind of desperate need for young pitching. Do you actually watch baseball games? Have you ever gone over their minor league scouting reports? Have you done -ANY- research? On the current team, we've got Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy, all of whom project to be 2-starters or better. In addition, we've got a kid named Alan Horne tearing up the minors. We've got Jeff Karstens, Darrell Rasner, Tyler Clippard and Matt DeSalvo... all of whom are capable pitchers who'd likely be in the starting rotations of 20 out of 30 major league teams, but aren't good enough to crack the Yankees rotation. Our staff ace, Chien-Ming Wang is still young. Next years rotation will consist of Wang, Pettitte, Hughes, Chamberlain and Kennedy. The following year, we'll replace Pettitte with Alan Horne. This team does NOT need more starting pitching. If anything, it needs young position players to pick up for the soon-to-depart Jason Giambi, Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Bobby Abreu and Jorge Posada... but you never even suggest that. The Yankee farm system is devoid of quality position players. And you want more pitching. This site would have been witty if that suggestion was made within the last 12 months... or if you actually updated your content every year or so. I'm not arguing that A-Rod's post-season performance as a Yankee is good or acceptable. I'm simply pointing out that it's a small sample size of games, compared to 1900+ games at which he's performed on par with anybody who's ever played the game. Moreso... yes, he's failed in the post-season... but ask yourself this. Do the Yankees MAKE the post season in 2007 without A-Rod? The answer, very obviously, is no. Robb If it wasn't for A-Rod, you wouldn't even need to worry about the post-season this year. He is the reason that the Yankees are in the post-season hunt. Period. It's fine, though, he'll look good in a Red Sox uniform next year. chucksax Wow. Trading one of the best players in baseball history. Trading the guy that carried the team in April and May... and most of the rest of the year. Sorry, dude, I think you're wrong. Take Derek Jeter, for instance. I'm not Jeter-bashing (Derek was one of two names on the final list to name my son), but look at his statistics in the following postseasons: '98 ALDS & ALCS; 2000 ALDS; 2001 ALCS & WS; 2004 ALCS. That's six postseason series that Mr. Clutch batted below .220 with an OPS around .600. Do the words "Small Sample Size" have any meaning to you?