OK, Alex Rodriguez has been one of my favorite players for years even before he was traded to the Yankees. I always had respect for him and loved to watch him play because I knew he was and is a guy that can do things on a baseball field like the players you hear your dad talk about. Wrap your mind around this:
He will be 32 on July 27 and he is only 26 home runs shy of 500. He has a very legitimate shot at getting to 500 before his 32nd birthday. No one has ever hit 500 home runs before that age. Never been done. He was also the first to ever reach 400 home runs before turning 30. All the legendary names in the history of this sport – Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mike Schmidt, Jimmie Foxx, Willie McCovey, Mel Ott, Ted Williams, -not one of those guys (all with more than 500 home runs) ever made it to 400 before they turned 30, but Alex Rodriguez did. He’s doing things in this game that men of legend have not done, and then some.
He will reach the 3,000 hit mark and will do so with more than a .300 career batting average. He has won gold gloves and MVPs, has played several All Star games and in the post season. All that is left for him is the top of the mountain. I want this guy to walk away with a World Series ring and to do it with the Yankees. When all is said and done, Alex Rodriguez will go down as one of the 10 greatest players in the history of baseball. I so want nothing more than to see him carve his name into the deep history of Yankees’ World Series Championships.
