Where Have A-Rod’s Early Season Homers Gone?
Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 10, 2010
Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder for Alex Rodriguez, here are the number of games each season, within his team's first 30 games of the season, where A-Rod has hit at least 1 homerun:
| Rk | Year | #Matching | PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SH | SF | IBB | HBP | GDP | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2007 | 11 | Ind. Games | 54 | 48 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 30 | 6 | 11 | .417 | .481 | 1.333 | 1.815 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1998 | 9 | Ind. Games | 44 | 42 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 8 | .548 | .568 | 1.381 | 1.949 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2003 | 9 | Ind. Games | 45 | 40 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 12 | .425 | .489 | 1.250 | 1.739 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 2001 | 8 | Ind. Games | 38 | 31 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 22 | 6 | 7 | .419 | .500 | 1.419 | 1.919 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2002 | 8 | Ind. Games | 39 | 33 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 5 | .455 | .538 | 1.394 | 1.932 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | 2000 | 7 | Ind. Games | 35 | 26 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 7 | 2 | .615 | .686 | 1.692 | 2.378 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | 2005 | 7 | Ind. Games | 32 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 3 | .567 | .594 | 1.667 | 2.260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 2004 | 6 | Ind. Games | 28 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 | .429 | .571 | 1.286 | 1.857 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | 2006 | 6 | Ind. Games | 29 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 3 | .480 | .552 | 1.240 | 1.792 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 1997 | 5 | Ind. Games | 24 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | .478 | .500 | 1.130 | 1.630 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 2008 | 4 | Ind. Games | 19 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | .471 | .526 | 1.235 | 1.762 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | 1996 | 3 | Ind. Games | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | .538 | .538 | 1.385 | 1.923 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 2010 | 3 | Ind. Games | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .444 | .583 | 1.444 | 2.028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 2009 | 1 | Ind. Games | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .250 | 1.000 | 1.250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Some notes:
This season just may be the worst "homerun" start for Rodriguez in his career. (You have to discount 2009 here because he missed most of the team's first 30 games when he was rehabbing his hip.)
While 2007, A-Rod's "opt-out" season, is the high mark here - with 14 homers in 30 games to start the season, half of the time, Alex is good for 10 big flys to start the season. (If you kick out 2009 and 2010 here, that leaves 12 seasons on the chart - and in 6 of those 12 seasons he had 10+ HR within the team's first 30 games. And, he just missed by one HR in 2000 to make this 7 of 12 times.)
A-Rod's "pace" this year is much closer to his rate in 1996 and 2008 - where he hit 36 and 35 homers, overall, respectively. And, if Rodriquez "only" hits 35 homeruns this season, that won't be terrible - most batters would be happy with that mark.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Federal investigators have prohibited me from discussing my lack of power this season.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
LOL.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
He's 34. Without steroids or HGH, his body is to age like normal people's.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Really. And here I thought he would age like a fit, professional athlete.
May 10th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Never cross Dallas Braden (or his mound) :-O
May 10th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Here are Arod's March/April numbers projected to 162 games.
Generated 5/10/2010.
May 10th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
If he hits 14 HRs this year, they'll run him out of town in New York! 😉
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