Alex Rodriguez sat for a press conference today. He didn’t say anything too terribly interesting. Winning the World Series wasn’t getting a monkey off his back, “it was a humongous gorilla that came off my back.” He’s happy. He wants to win more. He knows he’s come a long way since last winter. Pretty conventional stuff.
The MLB.com article talking about the press conference had an interesting passage, however:
“A very good player who did a few special things?” Doesn’t that undersell Rodriguez a bit? If he got hit by a bus tomorrow his career would end with him at 8th on the all-time home run list and three MVPs under his belt, with the majority of his time spent at shortstop. To steal Bill James’ line about Rickey Henderson, if you cut him in two you’d have two Hall of Famers.