Alex Rodriguez 2009
The team stumbled out of the starting blocks, struggling to adjust to a new Yankee Stadium playing the role of an unforgiving bandbox. Give me a break. As much power this year as Posada (13 HR) and harder to pitch around.
As if that weren’t enough for Yankee fans to stomach, the team also lost its first eight head-to-head matchups of the year to the archrival Boston Red Sox. Agreed...another bum to go along with Rollins in my lineup.The Yankees put up 13 runs on 16 hits thru just 5 innings while A-Rod is playing, and he finished 0-4. There’s also pressure on the Mets to cancel the ballpark’s naming rights deal with Citigroup, because it is argued that the banking giant, in the process of being bailed out by the Federal Government in the wake of the crippling nationwide housing meltdown, should not be spending $400 million to put its name on a ballpark; a few members of the New York City Council suggest that the ballpark be renamed Citi/Taxpayer Field.
Ticket prices are easily the highest in baseball, with even some bleacher seats pegged at $100; the first eight rows of the lower deck, named the Legends Suites, sell for as high as $2,600 per seat, Compared to the new Yankee Stadium, New York City’s other new ballpark for 2009—Citi Field—is decidedly mundane by comparison.
Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of Alex Rodriguez from 2009. He was reveling in the early stages of a 10-year, $275 million contract with the New York Yankees, themselves feeling good vibes mostly paid for with megawatt free agent acquisitions CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Closer Brad Lidge, unblemished in 2008, was a mess from start to finish, lucky to retain his ninth-inning role into the postseason. Derek Jeter, who earlier in the year became the franchise’s all-time hit leader, added 11 more knocks to lead the team; designated hitter Hideki Matusi made the most of his part-time duties and earned the Series MVP with an 8-for-13 performance that included three homers and eight RBIs; the offense, continuing its power surge from the regular season, stroked a Yankee-record 20 postseason home runs; and incomparable closer Mariano Rivera continued his dominance in the fall, allowing just one run over 16 playoff innings to improve his career postseason ERA to an astonishing 0.74 over 133.1 innings.From the self-inflicted tortures of winter and spring, Alex Rodriguez rose reborn from his own ashes, came half-circle and accomplished what few in his position before him had experienced: Redemption. The field plays spaciously, especially in right-center; as a result, few home runs (and many triples) are hit in the ballpark’s first year of operation, leading to a lowering of the center-field wall for 2010. This is beyond frustrating.Is anybody starting to actually get a little worried about him? Truly, even the speed/agility looks good. Updated: December 17, 2009 When I checked the boxscore I thought he at least homered or something.
CC Sabathia was nowhere near the $161 million saving grace on the mound the Yankees had hoped, while another effective Yankee hurler of recent years, Chien-Ming Wang, was absolutely pummeled in his first three starts, allowing 23 runs in six total innings. This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. The man arguably considered baseball’s greatest slugger of the moment was about to unwillingly embark on a whirlwind season of emotions that ran the gamut from shame to doubt to atonement to, at the end, solace from a forgiving redemption.All the while, an image-conscious Rodriguez carefully cultivated a congenial yet cautious reputation, quick to sport an All-American smile in front of cameras and fans that, at closer inspection, seemed to carry a more unconvincing and wary detachment.Outside of a recent divorce, life was good for Rodriguez as spring training neared in 2009. It seems fitting that the New York Yankees, who won their very first World Series in their inaugural year at the original Yankee Stadium in 1923, would christen in their $1.3 billion replacement with another championship. I have been watching his AB, and yess he seems to still have a good eye for the pitches out of the strike zone. A patchwork rotation was revived late in the year with two midseason acquisitions: A trade with Cleveland for reigning Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee, and the signing of 37-year-old Pedro Martinez, who had sat unemployed all year after struggling through an injury-plagued 2008 with the Mets.
As others have mentioned, this is his spring training, just give him time and he'll come roaring back.I wonder if you switch A-Rod and Tex, if A-Rod's numbers would trump Tex's.I wonder if you switch A-Rod and Tex, if A-Rod's numbers would trump Tex's.The Yankees put up 13 runs on 16 hits thru just 5 innings while A-Rod is playing, and he finished 0-4. He was 4 out of the 15 total outs recorded!!! One remained: Winning the World Series, something the Yankees hadn’t done in eight years—and something Rodriguez himself had never personally experienced.To do that, the Yankees would have to overcome the defending world champions.Patience, indeed, would win the day—and the season—for the Phillies.
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