A-Rod Is Pressing for 600

Bronx Baseball Daily — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:43 +0000

There is no denying the fact that Alex Rodriguez is having a bit of an off-year.

Entering July, his batting average and slugging percentage have dropped and he hasn’t been quite as patient at the plate. In July, he started turning things around, at least power-wise, by cracking five homers in the first 17 games of the month. His average and patience hadn’t totally returned, but it was a start.

Then he hit home run No. 599.

Since that time, just six games, A-Rod has gone cold. In that span, he has a decent batting average of .280. However, with just one walk, his OBP is a lowly .333 and his slugging percentage is almost non-existent (in A-Rod’s terms) at .360.

A-Rod says he’s happy with his approach at the plate , but when he’s not walking and not picking up many extra base hits, you know things are going wrong.

No need to sound any alarms here.

A-Rod will eventually come out of this funk, which has only been six games so far anyways. Hopefully he does it sooner than later though. You do get the feeling that he’s going to need to hit No. 600 to turn it around though.

So here’s hoping that he hits 600 tonight just so we can get this over with already and get back to the same old A-Rod.

Brian Cashman Gives Xavier Nady World Series Ring Before Game in Flushing

Bronx Baseball Daily — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:07:27 +0000

Earlier in the day I wrote about former Yankee pitchers Edwar Ramirez and Chad Gaudin getting their rings yesterday and I wrote that the Yankees really haven’t let everyone know when they’ll be getting their rings.

I certainly wasn’t foreshadowing anything, but earlier today Xavier Nady got a nice surprise when the Yankees general manager Brian Cashman showed up at Citi Field before the Cubs, Nady’s current team, took on the Mets and gave him him his ring.

Here is more from the AP :

Cubs outfielder Xavier Nady received his 2009 World Series ring on Wednesday when Yankees general manager Brian Cashman delivered the prize to Citi Field before Chicago faced the Mets.

Nady said he had no idea when he was going to get the ring. He praised Cashman for bringing it over himself.

Nady played in seven games for the Yankees last season. He went on the disabled list in April with an injured right elbow that eventually required ligament replacement surgery. He signed a $3.3 million, one-year contract with the Cubs in January.

Thoughts : It was very cool that Cashman showed up himself to present Nady with the ring and it is much cooler that the ring wasn’t just mailed to him. He wasn’t a big part of this team, but I think it goes a long way to say that he was appreciated while he was here no matter how small the contribution.

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