ARod, 14 HRs in 18 games.

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: jinduy
anyone here speculate that arod might be juicing in one form or another?

I don't know why, but he's one guy that I don't suspect of juicing.

Barry, Pujols, Clemens... They all juice. I'm not an A-Rod fan but he doesn't trip my juice-dar. I could be wrong...

How can you say Pujols isn't juiced. He hasn't changed at all since he came into the Majors in what 2001. Hell, they say he gained maybe 20lbs in college. Not only that he has said, do what you want and test me. I wish people would stop saying this to one of the classiest players in professional sports.

I also am of the mind that the media continues to blow this out of proportion. The same with Dice-K. I really wish they would stop interrupting my games for me to see another pointless homer or something. Additionally, there is no Gyroball, if you look at ESPN, it is a simply screwball, and in one video it is your typical slider. I wish the media would just stop with 100% Yankee's and Red Sox coverage and get out to the other teams.

-Kevin

 

[dbk]

Arod's on my fantasy team!!! I don't think he's juiced. He's just really locked; apparently prior to last night, all his homers have been off of fastballs. His second jack last night came off of a breaking ball.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: ungsunghero
If he keeps up this pace through the next 8 seasons, he'll blow right by Baroid's soon-to-be record!

Um, 14x6x8 + arods current numbers = way more than barroid...

He said "this pace"...

 

[j00fek]

dont matter till the playoffs

 

[NakaNaka]

Originally posted by: j00fek
dont matter till the playoffs

False. A-Rod is keeping this Yankee team afloat. They might not even make the playoffs, and that has nothing to do w. A-Rod.

 

[NeoV]

2nd Jack last night was a 92mph fastball. Any talk of A-rod using roids is ignorant - he prepares himself as much as anyone in pro sports - the guy does 30 minutes of eye exercises everyday for crying out loud!

Arod has been under that microscope since he signed the 250M contract, add NY to that mix and you have the situation he's in today.

Yankees aren't going to make the playoffs this year unless they get Clemens, and Mussina/Wang/Pettite don't have any more injury issues. Prize prospect Philip Hughes starts Thursday night, he's got good stuff as well and may be needed for a while.

I would have to disagree that Arod is the Gretzky of MLB - Gretzky was the greatest offensive player in the history of hockey after only a few seasons, and held, what, 60 records when he retired? A-rod is on pace to break the all-time HR record, but Pujols is actually off to a better start for his career than A-rod - in fact he's off to the best start of any hitter, ever. If Arod had a bunch of batting and RBI titles, and a handful of championships, then the Gretzky comparison might be more accurate.

All that said, he's still one of the best 2 or 3 players. Yankee fans with all of this "not a true Yankee" garbage need to get a clue - Was Paul O'Neil a Yankee his entire career? Giambi? Clemens? Wells? Mussina? Matsui? Sheffield? No one had any problems with these guys being Yankees, but with A-Rod it's a big deal - the entire thing is idiotic.

 

[SampSon]

ARod is a fantastic baseball player, no matter what rabid Yanks fans think about his performances in October. He is on pace and most likely will set some records. Had the REST OF THE TEAM come to play in October then they wouldn't have to sweat ARod so much. One man can't save their absolutely lackluster performances come end of season. They are a stacked team with no excuse for letting one players poor performance cost them the season. The yankees fans are a bunch of schmucks who expect to win everytime, parade around like pompous tools when they win and cry like babies looking for anyone to blame when they don't.

Any team in the league would take ARod on their staff.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: SampSon
ARod is a fantastic baseball player, no matter what rabid Yanks fans think about his performances in October. He is on pace and most likely will set some records. Had the REST OF THE TEAM come to play in October then they wouldn't have to sweat ARod so much. One man can't save their absolutely lackluster performances come end of season. They are a stacked team with no excuse for letting one players poor performance cost them the season. The yankees fans are a bunch of schmucks who expect to win everytime, parade around like pompous tools when they win and cry like babies looking for anyone to blame when they don't.

Any team in the league would take ARod on their staff.

I'm as big a Yankee fan as anyone.
No Yankee fan with any brains blames Arod for what happened in the postseason. The rest of the team did absolutely nothing. What people do fault him for, and rightfully so until this year, is that he doesn't perform in clutch situations. Runners on first and second with one out, Yankees down by one and you could put down money on him grounding into a DP. I don't know if it's because he was trying too hard, or because he bulked up too much, I don't know. But the facts are that's what happened all the time the last two seasons. Nobody doubts that he's an enormously gifted player.
As a Yankee fan, I'm absolutely thrilled whith what he'd doing so far this year and doing it in real clutch situations.

 

[JS80]

freak of nature if not on roids.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: JS80
freak of nature if not on roids.

There's no way he's juicing.
He actually dropped 15 lbs. this season.

 

[Fingolfin269]

It must be the HGH! Or umm expansion! Or umm the baseballs are loaded! Corked bats???

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Yankees are the Maple Leafs of baseball when it comes to fan attitude.

really? the only way i could see it being comparable is if the Leafs booed Gretsky as a member of the Leafs. i don't remember gretzky ever playing for toronto.

ARod today is to the MLB what Gretzky was to the NHL in his prime.

I wouldn't go that far...

Gretzky took a team that was poised to dominate, and dragged them over the edge, setting umpteen records in the process...

While ARod has been a fantastic player, and he has pretty much put up HoF numbers already, ARod simply does NOT have the post season records to back up his regular season performances, and really, the regular season is for numbers, it's the post-season that counts.

I'll freely admit to being envious of the money he gets, but hey, that's why he has a team of agents right?

 

[SilthDraeth]

Damn, I thought 14HR meant 14 hours in 18 games. I was like, man thats not even an hour per game.

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: kedlav

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
WOW

any yankee fans booing him now?

G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG SB CS SH SF HBP
35 132 19 37 9 0 6 16 15 32 .280 .362 .485 4 3 1 0 2

Career postseason stats. 14 HR in April only matters for MVP awards, which doesn't mean squat for his team, especially on a team with a host of mashers.

Ok, and .280 is terrible? Against playoff caliber pitching? Come on...

Check out his postseason stats for 2005 and 2006

Awful.

Check out his 2000 and 2004 stats. Awesome. Also a much bigger sample size since he had 85 combined at bats in those years compared with 29 in 05/06. Why did he have so few at bats in those years you quoted? Simple. Because the whole team sucked during those series. Either everyone was playing bad on his team, or the other team was playing very well. Yet illogical people will try to pin the yankees failures on one guy.

I'd also like to point out that his .obp was .435 in the 2005 postseason after his mvp regular season. Yeah, that's really horrible to be on base almost half the time that he came to the plate. Sure he wasn't hitting home runs, but it's pretty clear that the other team was pitching around him.

 

[Miramonti]

He's batting .400, and 14/30 hits (47%) are HR's, and over 1 RBI per hit (34). He's worth almost 1/2 a run for every statistical at bat he gets. :Q

At this pace, its almost a no-brainer to walk him anytime the score is close.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: JS80
freak of nature if not on roids.

There's no way he's juicing.
He actually dropped 15 lbs. this season.

Yep. The man came back leaner and meaner. He is really silencing the critics right now. Of course the pitching staff is garbage right now :|

 

[BeauJangles]

What most people haven't grasped yet is that if A-Rod continued on the pace he's been on throughout his career (avg 44 - 47 HR / season) he's going to OBLITERATE the home run record. Hell, if he averages 40 hrs for the next nine years, which is entirely possible, he'll have over 820. The guy is an offensive machine and among the best all-around players in the game.