I happened to catch John Sterling’s call of Alex Rodriguez’s walk-off grannie yesterday (WPA of , and his exaggerated phrasing of this post’s title has been stuck in my head since then. This is starting to rival my two-day “Lazy Mary” bender.
Anyway, if you check out ARod’s season line over at Fangraphs, you’ll notice a couple peculiar things.
One, his WPA total now leads all hitters at .70 wins. True Yankee?
Two, ARod’s pLI — the average leverage of his plate appearances — is 2.14. That means he’s come to the plate in situations over twice as important as the average batter. In New York. Hello, scrutiny.
Three, ARod’s clutch score is actually still negative. Poser.
AAAARod hits an AAAABomb. Crap.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.