Teixeira was hit by a pitch in his next at-bat, sparking a benches-clearing brawl and adding some excitement to a Subway Series that lost its luster when the Yankees chose to give up on chasing the playoffs in 2016.
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“I know that the organization has a brighter future today than it did last week and hopefully I’m part of that equation”, Rodriguez said Tuesday, via Pete Caldera of the Record.
A-Rod is sitting on 696 career long balls.
And asked if he would be better off, for several reasons, without Rodriguez on his roster, Girardi said: “These aren’t really fair questions, are they?”
Last in the NL in batting average, the Mets acquired the All-Star outfielder from the Reds on Monday in an attempt to replicate the spark Yoenis Cespedes provided after he was obtained at last year’s trade deadline.
For now, Alderson suggested Cespedes will put his clubs aside. The past few weeks have been miserable for him as well, as he sits four home runs short of 700 and can’t crack the lineup. Manager Terry Collins said he’d never overseen a team hit so hard by injuries. “Hopefully at the end of two weeks he’ll be back and hopefully 100 percent or close to it”.
Rumors of the New York Yankees potentially releasing 41-year-old Alex Rodriguez have been going on for weeks.
A-Rod is in a 2-for-28 rut, is hitting.204 overall and has started once since July 22. The lone loss in that span came at Tampa Bay on Saturday, when he surrendered two home runs among three hits in six innings.
“I haven’t discussed with the baseball people anything about what we’re going to be doing in the hours and days to come”, he said.
And when it was pointed out to Girardi that over the ensuing years, both Rodriguez and Colon have aged at roughly the same rate – Colon, in fact, is two years older at 43 – and that perhaps Rodriguez’s dominance over Colon might continue into their athletic dotage, the manager sidestepped the question.
“Obviously, the numbers are tremendous”, Girardi said, but those stats were from “years and years ago”, built before the 2008 season.
After Gary Sanchez got his first big league hit in the seventh and scored on Rob Refsnyder’s sacrifice fly for a 7-4 lead, Teixeira was at second with the bases loaded when Teixeira got into Robles’ head.
Dropped in May after starting 0-6, Severino was banished to the minor leagues for two months. The team traded Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran, and Ivan Nova in separate deals and brought back a number of top prospects in return.
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Hey, here’s something amusing: Two innings after Mark Teixeira objected to getting plunked by a Steven Matz pitch in the Yanks’ win over the Mets on Wednesday, Teixeira drew a walk off reliever Hansel Robles and made his way to second base when Robles also walked the next batter.
