With Alex Rodrigues in the news lately as he chases down
Willie Mays and his 660 career home runs, I wondered. How did ARod do in games
I’ve attended? Well, actually, I guess it would be games I’ve attended so far.
After all, I might get to see him play again at some point.
I figured his career would be an interesting one. He’s been
playing for a while, and I’ve had the chance to see him play for three
different teams. It should make for an interesting cross section.
So, how did he do?
About as well as you’d expect a player who regularly took
PEDs to do.
I got to see ARod play in twelve games. (Again, I scored
twelve games he played in. I might have seen him in a couple I didn’t score for
one reason or another.) Those games led to 40 at-bats.
In those 40 at-bats, he had thirteen hits, leading to a
robust 0.325 batting average. Of those thirteen hits, three of them cleared the
wall. That gives him a 0.650 slugging percentage. Yikes. He reached base at a
0.460 clip while I was in the stands. Do the math, and you have a guy with a
1.110 OPS. Yup. He did well while I was around.
In fact, extrapolate those numbers out for a full season of
660 AB, and you’re looking at an MVP caliber season. And then some. His slash
line would be .325/50/116. He would have scored 231 runs in this mythical
season. I suppose on the plus side, he would strike out 264 times while “only”
walking 165 times.
Maybe he should pay to have me travel with him. I seem to
bring him good luck.
Damn.
