Alex Rodriguez despite missing the better part of the last two seasons is still within striking distance of more than a few milestones in 2015. We all have heard the dead horse being beaten about if and when Rodriguez hits his sixth home run of the season to tie Willie Mays on the all-time home run list because of the $6 million bonus the team reportedly plans on fighting but there are quite a few more that the soon to be 40 year old may reach this season.
Rodriguez is just 61 hits away from the historic 3000 hit
plateau while also sitting 6th all-time in RBI with 1969 RBI. Alex is a
mere 61 home runs away from tying Babe Ruth on the home run list and just 26 RBI behind the great Yankees legend Lou Gehrig in RBI. Rodriguez may also pass
Barry Bonds (1996 RBI) on the RBI list to take sole possession of third place all-time.
Rodriguez sits just 245 RBI behind Ruth for 2nd place all-time and with
a healthy next three seasons could conceivably push for that record, although
it looks less and less likely.
Alex also sits 10th all-time in runs scored with
1919 runs. Even with a diminished Yankees offense I believe Rodriguez could at
least pass Derek Jeter (1923) and Stan Musial (1949) on the list with an outside chance of passing Cap Anson (1999) for 8th all-time with less than 100 runs scored.
One of the greatest talents to play baseball in my lifetime, and he screwed it all up thinking he needed that something extra. What a jerk, fans may say his ego got to him, I say nay, nayI
ReplyDeleteI think it was his lack of self-confidence, not his ego! Playing with the two teams before the Yankees, he got little recognition for his game, it was always Nomar and Jeter. Is there anyone out there in the baseball world that can honestly say; "A-Rod wasn't the best SS or player in baseball"? When one stipulates he hadn't used drugs until he joined Texas, take his first 8 years and compute what might have been without the dirt he inflicted upon himself.