Where's A-Rod???

I agree. The Angels crapped themselves every time Arod stepped up to the plate. He probably deserved it because he played every game and was a threat every minute he was in there. However, Sabathia was a workhorse and looked like he could've thrown 200 pitches after three days rest and stepped up big time on the biggest stage and Yanks don't win without Sabathia either.

They could've given out co-mvps. They both deserved it.

What would you rather win the ALCS MVP, or the World Series MVP??
If he plays as well in the WS as he did in the ALDS and the ALCS, he will get his rewards.
What Arod needs is the NY fans to embrace him fully as a Yankee.
He's almost there.

EH

I was a bit surprised, but CC was a better choice. Lots of contributions, Pettite, Rivera, Damon, Jeter, it wasn't about just one person, IMO.

I am impressed with Giradi (as I was when he was with the MARLINS), and I understand why they made him the manager. I also understand that he worked really hard at bringing the team together, and the chemistry was obvious.

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Originally posted by theEH:
What would you rather win the ALCS MVP, or the World Series MVP??
If he plays as well in the WS as he did in the ALDS and the ALCS, he will get his rewards.
What Arod needs is the NY fans to embrace him fully as a Yankee.
He's almost there.

EH

Arod has fully arrived with the NY fan. Carrying the team on his back offensively and showing leadership by his coaching the younger players on the basepaths showed a side of Arod that never was there before this season. Arod is no longer about compiling gaudy stats off meatball pitchers in meaningless games. He came up big against a team the Yanks haven't beaten in years in the ALCS which is more pressure-packed than the world series because the last step getting to the world series is the most pressureized series.

This is by far the best season of Arod's career and that includes his MVP years because he still got big numbers and a ton of big hits this year as well as taking the heat off Teixiera's miserable start when he came back from a partially repaired hip surgery in which he is/was scheduled for more surgeryto fix the remainder of the damaged hip, which shows he busted his tail to get as healthy as possible to get back playing.

Now that he has carried the team with his bat glove and some leadership, he carved his spot as a Yankee.

He's got some work left in the series and could have a so-so series but at this point, there's no question he could come up big in big spots. He answered those questions.

It looks like Arod is finally relaxing and just playing baseball and not squeezing the bat into sawdust. All on a bum hip no less.

If he continues his streak into the world series and Yanks win it, then he becomes a Yankee legend.

Not really sure if the bum hip is helping or hurting... some players seem to do their best work when not physically 100% Schilling & Gibson come to mind. Maybe it is some sort of emotional crutch???

zombywoof

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If he continues his streak into the world series and Yanks win it, then he becomes a Yankee legend.

I won't disagree with that statement, and Arod has come up big this year.
But until that WS trophy is in the case he will not be fully accepted as a Yankee.
Such as Jeter, Poseda, Rivera
Mattingly, Mantle, Gehrig, Demaggio, Berra

Ruth?

EH

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Originally posted by theEH:
zombywoof

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If he continues his streak into the world series and Yanks win it, then he becomes a Yankee legend.

I won't disagree with that statement, and Arod has come up big this year.
But until that WS trophy is in the case he will not be fully accepted as a Yankee.
Such as Jeter, Poseda, Rivera
Mattingly, Mantle, Gehrig, Demaggio, Berra

Ruth?

EH

Yeah, you're probsbly right about that. Most likely because of all the winning and being origional Yankees may make that level a bit of a reach for Arod. But if Arod wins 2-3 titles before he retires, he will have had spent most of his years as a Yankee and earn his place somewhere among the Yankee greats. Especially if he becomes the home run king as a Yankee. But he does need the world series ring. He did rid himself as a choker in the big spot.

There are exceptions to the rule about winning a title. Specifically, Don Mattingly. He was probably the best Yankee player never to win a title in his 14 years as a Yankee that I saw play, but he came to play, was a gamer and hit .417 in the one playoff series ever played in. If Mattingly played in the Jeter era or the Munson era, he would've raised his game like Jeter or Munson did. Unfortunately for Mattingly, he came up after the Yankees last world series and retired the year before they went back for the first time since '81.