Alex Rodriguez

Birthdate	07/27/1975
Death Date
Debut Year	1994
Year of Induction
Teams	Mariners, Rangers, Yankees
Positions	Designated Hitter, Shortstop, Third Base

Alex Rodriguez was drafted by the Seattle Mariners #1 overall in the 1993 MLB draft and made his big league debut at the age of eighteen.

Scouts projected Rodriguez as a superstar as an 18-year old high school player

In the collection is am autographed scouting report for Alex Rodrigez from August, 1994. It was an 18-year old A-Rod who Dodger scout Nate Oliver assesses as a future superstar. Oliver writes, “Alex has great body, strong good looking kid on a 6’3” frame. He has good instincts for a young kid. He possess a very strong accurate arm. Along with very good

Ed Hickox called balls and strikes for both Alex Rodriguez' 1st and 3,000th MLB hits

Ed Hickox broke in as a Major League umpire in 1990. Since then he’s been on the field for some of baseball’s most memorable moments. Hickox was behind the plate on July 9, 1994 at Fenway Park when an 18-year old Alex Rodriguez singled to the left side of the infield for his first big league hit. More than 20-years later, Hickox again was calling balls and strikes when

Alex Rodriguez is the first and only American League hitter with 600 homers and 3,000 hits

When Alex Rodriguez recorded his 3,000th hit on June 19th, 2015 he made American League history. He became the first man to amass 3,000 hits and 600 home runs in Junior Circuit play. So great was his accomplishment that only two AL before him had as many as 3,000 hits and 400 homers. Carl Yastrzemsk

Fifth on the career homer list, Alex Rodriguez appeared in the Home Run Derby twice

Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times in the seven-year period from 2001-2007. During that run he hit .304 with a .400 on-base percentage, and a .591 slugging mark. He averaged 47 home runs and 130 RBI per season and posted a 154 OPS+. Each of his three MVP seasons came in t

In 2013 A-Rod passed Lou Gehrig as the all-time leader in grand slams

Alex Rodriguez had an incredible big league career. The three-time Most valuable Player earned ten Silver Slugger Awards and ranks in the top-ten in baseball history in homers, RBI, runs, and total bases. Rodriguez also hit the most grand slam home runs in Major League Baseball history. On September

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Judgment of Steroid Era comes every year at Hall of Fame

June 18th, 2014 Leave a comment

(Editors’ note: Mike Piazza was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 24, 2016.) Can the game’s story be complete without a plaque of the baseball’s all-time home run leader? Doesn’t the man with the most Cy Young Awards deserve induction? How about the catcher with the most career homers? All have been on the ballot, yet none is enshrined. The allegations pointed toward Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are well-documented. The case for Mike Piazza remains less clear. Certainly his numbers are certainly Cooperstown-worthy. Amassed in any other era, his 427 homers and .308 lifetime average would be enough to garner the catcher a bronze plaque. Piazza’s six seasons with at least 100 runs batted in, 12 all-star appearances, and ten Silver Slugger awards certainly seem Cooperstown-worthy. In today’s Hall of Fame voting process, however, numbers aren’t enough. That’s where hypocrisy begins to creep in. During the steroid era, the Baseball Writers concerned themselves only with on-field performance. Seven times they voted prickly Barry Bonds the MVP; seven times they cast enough votes for Roger Clemens to receive the Cy Young Award. No one cared then that the players’ statistics might have been aided by performance enhancing drugs. When those same two players were on the Hall of Fame […]