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rmullig2
Perfect example of the difference between the New York media and the Boston media. ARod is washed up after 30 ab’s but Sandoval has value after losing his job, going on the DL with a phantom injury, and having more money left than ARod.
mookiessnarl
Except the ARod thing was from New Jersey and the Boston thing was actually said by a baseball executive, but it’s cool if you write your own narrative.
rmullig2
Funny how all the executives that still like Sandoval are anonymous and talk only to Cafardo..
InPolesWeTrust
Arod is 40 years old bud. Panda has time to have lap-band surgery and maybe resemble what an actual MLB 3B looks like.
BoldyMinnesota
As much as it pains me to say, I don’t think anyone’s picking Sandoval over Rodriguez
gomerhodge71
Pablo would still be productive if he lost 30 pounds. ARod isn’t going to wake up tomorrow and be 33 years old.
Blue_Painted_Dreams_LA
That’s not really accurate Panda was terrible in sf when he lost all the weight. Granted it’s not like there is a direct correlation,but a blanket statement isn’t truly accurate
TheMichigan
Damn, I know people don’t like arod but 30 ABs?
mike156
As little as I like A-Rod, I wouldn’t write him off quite yet. The speculation in the media is just that. It’s early in the season, they need a narrative to go with, and the Yankees aren’t exactly playing well.
johnsilver
I get what you are saying there. ortiz got to where he wasn’t getting around on FB’s in the 90mph range back around 2009-10, he 1st of all started cheating on his swing a bit sometimes and then over an off season? Kind of remade his entire swing. Problem there, is Ortiz was 34 then and Rodriquez is 40 now. If he’s entirely lost it? Cheating on his swing is a temporary fix that will be shortly exploited by pitchers with him getting many fewer fb’s anyway.
Napoli is another example of a guy who lost his bat speed and figured out how to get it back within a season, tho he was a full 6y younger than Rodriquez also..
Don’t care for him myself, but seeing a guy who has played that long go out like this is sad. If he can get some of it back? The proud way would be to do it like Bench and Yaz & call it quits afterward, tho saying adios to 21m would be hard.
mike156
A-Rod could surprise everyone, but I think many great athletes (and, PEDs or not, he’s pretty exceptional) have a hard time knowing when time is up–and all that money, no matter what he’s already banked, is also tough to walk away from. Chipper, Mo, and now Ortiz seemed to know when to call it a day. Jeter’s pride after the injury in 2013 kept him from recognizing that he could no longer do it. Sometimes we also forget that a lot of these guys have had nothing but baseball in their lives since they were in junior high school. This is the only life they have known–and saying goodbye to it–not just the money, but the structure, is difficult.
A'sfaninUK
Pablo’s body type and eating disorder (which is what it is, lets quit beating around the bush here) are a combination that only had a short window of opportunity of success as a pro athlete, he’s lucky he got as far as he did – same thing happened to Andruw Jones, who routinely ate entire boxes of candy bars during games and bragged about his “metabolism” whos career promptly fell off a cliff at 30, the age most people with poor diets and eating habits bodies fall off.
The fact that the Giants had to tell hotels to not serve him room service after 11pm really shows a lack of understanding about eating disorders. MLB should look into this. Jones was certified HOFer (and technically probably should be in anyway if you look at his massive 67.1 career fWAR – 73rd highest all-time – top 100 position player of all-time) but had his career derailed by bad eating habits or a disorder. It’s tricky because pitchers can get away with being overweight due to the mechanics somehow working with the body type but hitters really can’t and the fact that no one’s calling Pablo’s weight losses and gains what they are is frustrating to say the least.