Yankees and A-Rod

[andyfox]

Yeah, Harold Reynolds also was advocating a trade. Trading A-Rod would be galactically stupid, unless they could get Albert Pujols.

Even if he continues in the "funk" he's been in this year, he'll hit 36 home runs, score 114 and drive in 121. He leads AL third basemen in OPS, RBIs and runs scored.

Sheffied is out. Matsui is out. Cano is out. And the solution is to trade A-Rod?

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Sheffied is out. Matsui is out. Cano is out. And the solution is to trade A-Rod?

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well the solution is to clone Jeter 24times, but aside from that happening trading ARod looks like a good back up plan

I love Yankees fans

[DemonDeac]

he's not going anywhere.

thread over

[Sykes]

Anyone that trades A-rod is [censored] retarded. And the yankee fans need to quit the booing.

[CharlieDontSurf]

After reading Olney's blog...was Chuck K really headed towards a possible HOF worthy career?
I never really knew much about him prior to him joining the Yanks and then once he got the yips and turned into a complete mental disaster...he just kind of vanished from baseball all together.

[Dynasty]

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After reading Olney's blog...was Chuck K really headed towards a possible HOF worthy career?

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Among AL second basemen, only Robert Alomar could be considered better offensively during the early/mid '90s. His 1995 & 1996 seasons (ages 27 and 28) were particularly impressive.

1995: .333 AVG, .424 OBP, .911 OPS, 11 HR, 34 2B, 8 3B, 63 RBI, 107 RUNS, 46 SB
1996: .341 AVG, .448 OBP, .965 OPS, 13 HR, 35 2B, 14 3B, 72 RBI, 140 RUNS, 45 SB

Knoblauch really looked like he'd be a career .300 hitter with a little pop and excellent speed.

[Jack of Arcades]

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After reading Olney's blog...was Chuck K really headed towards a possible HOF worthy career?

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No. He had really only 2 good seasons by the time he turned 27. If he repeated his age 27 seasons a couple times, maybe. His most similar batter at age 27 was Rod Carew... who repeated (and improved on) his Age 27 season until he was 31. That's what Chuck would've had to have done.

[djj6835]

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ESPN is wasting like 5 minute segments actually talking about why he needs to be traded

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I also like the five minute segment about how he went 0 for 4 today at the plate. Clearly the guy's career is over, forget trading him, he should just retire. He's gone eight straight at bats without a hit.

[Jackie Onassis]

It's pretty easy to realize why some (idiotic) Yankee fans blame him. I don't know why people keep asking this question, even if it rhetoric.

That said, Reynolds looked like an idiot on Baseball Tonight talking about it - "This is not just a slump - Rodriguez will never be at the top again!"

[prohornblower]

Harold Reynolds doesn't even know what the top looks like.

Does anyone else get the impression that the baseball media is almost "proud" of the fact that they are mentally affecting (as they say), one of the greatest hitters of this generation?

It's like they are trying to prove how hard it is to play in New York by going on about how it's "over" and he needs to get out of town. I think they get off on the fact that they think they have a hand in his 0-for-8 slump. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]