Alex Rodriguez had enough big hits this season and has perfomed well enough in the postseason throughout his career that you'd think he'd be immune to this kind of over-the-top nonsense:
"That's the way one American League executive summarized A-Rod's disturbingly uneven performance: good enough for MVP-like numbers in the regular season, but an abysmal failure in October, just like Winfield. 'George is stuck with him,' is what the executive said of Rodriguez.
Five more years, $131 million, to be exact. Steinbrenner is already looking for someone to hold accountable for the way the third baseman has melted since Game 3 of last year's AL Championship Series. In his last 32 postseason at-bats, Rodriguez has four hits, no home runs and no RBI. The trauma was so great, A-Rod never boarded the Yankees' charter flight home Monday night; he stayed in California, according to a friend, to wind down, chill out, sort through the empty at-bats, including the double play grounder in the ninth inning of Game 5 that ruined the Yankees' season.
There'll be some revisionist whispering that it's Torre's fault -that, somehow, he didn't get in A-Rod's face often enough, as if suddenly that was Rodriguez's missing medicine."
Speaking of revisionism, the Yankees do not, "to be exact," owe ARod $131 million over the next five years. The Rangers are picking up about $45 million of that.
Oh, and a double play grounder in the ninth inning of Game 5 can hardly ruin the Yankees' season. That's not even possible. The season lasted 167 games and would have been a complete flop without ARod's production.
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