High and Tight.: One Last Post Tonight About the A-Rod Stuff

One Last Post Tonight About the A-Rod Stuff

One of my favorite bloggers, Lisa Swan over at Subway Squakers, has some good info and did some research (gasp!) over at her blog.

There's evidence of Roberts lying about what she even put in the book, stretching the truth or flat-out lying and then denying it as well as sensationalizing a story, and lying about what she even put in the book, and a nice analysis of the issues Rodriguez should face.

I admit freely I blatantly stole this from her as well:

A-Rod’s stats with the Rangers were actually, for the most part, WORSE in blowouts. If he was getting help in those games, it didn’t appear to do him much good:

Total numbers
Season AB Hits 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB HBP K SH SF GDP CI BA OBA Slug%
2001 632 201 34 1 52 135 75 6 16 131 0 9 17 0 .318 .399 .622
2002 624 187 27 2 57 142 87 12 10 122 0 4 14 0 .300 .392 .623
2003 607 181 30 6 47 118 87 10 15 126 0 6 16 0 .298 .396 .600

Trailing by Four Runs
Season AB Hits 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB HBP K SH SF GDP CI BA OBA Slug%
2001 34 8 2 0 1 6 3 0 1 8 0 0 1 0 .235 .316 .382
2002 28 8 1 1 4 5 0 0 1 6 0 0 1 0 .286 .310 .821
2003 37 17 6 0 6 13 3 0 0 9 0 0 2 0 .459 .500 1.108

Trailing by Five or More Runs
Season AB Hits 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB HBP K SH SF GDP CI BA OBA Slug%
2001 48 12 3 0 4 6 10 0 2 11 0 1 4 0 .250 .393 .562
2002 45 13 0 0 2 5 6 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 .289 .373 .422
2003 61 14 1 0 2 4 7 0 3 15 0 1 0 0 .230 .333 .344

Leading by Four Runs
Season AB Hits 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB HBP K SH SF GDP CI BA OBA Slug%
2001 21 4 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 .190 .227 .286
2002 23 6 1 1 0 4 2 0 0 9 0 1 0 0 .261 .308 .391
2003 21 7 1 0 4 7 5 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 .333 .462 .952

Leading by Five or More Runs
Season AB Hits 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB HBP K SH SF GDP CI BA OBA Slug%
2001 45 17 0 0 5 17 6 1 1 5 0 2 1 0 .378 .444 .711
2002 41 11 2 0 3 6 5 1 1 6 0 0 1 0 .268 .362 .537
2003 40 14 1 0 1 6 5 0 0 9 0 1 2 0 .350 .413 .450

By the way, that's an average of 147 AB per season in "blowouts." How many players was A-Rod "conspiring" with? If we put it at, let's say half of the American League (which as we all know is ridiculous), and we can assume that about a quarter of the time in blowouts the manager plays backups, we're looking at 55 AB total, per season. His teammates were "picking up" on that?

I think the biggest evidence against Roberts here is that she's fully willing to name Rodriguez... but what of the other players with whom he was conspiring? Why wouldn't Roberts name them?

Oh, they don't help sell books.

Labels: a-rod, selena roberts, subway squawkers

posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 5:42 PM 3 comments

3 Comments:

At 5/01/2009 6:41 PM, Subway Squawkers said...: Thanks so much for the nice words. I'm blushing!

Lisa
http://SubwaySquawkers.blogspot.com

P.S. Forgot to mention I got those numbers from looking at splits on baseballmusings.com.
At 5/05/2009 8:12 AM, June said...: and she's not "intrigued" by them. Nothing to do with her pocket. nuh uh.

also may i humbly suggest you specify the "her" in this:
"I blatantly stole this from her"
At 5/05/2009 9:17 AM, Mr. Faded Glory said...: Oh, the "her" being Swan, not Roberts.

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