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Alex Rodriguez
American baseball player (born 1975)
This article is about the baseball player. For others of the same name, see Alex Rodriguez (disambiguation).
Baseball player
Alex Rodriguez | |
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Rodriguez in 2015 | |
Shortstop / Third baseman | |
Born: (1975-07-27) July 27, 1975 (age 49) New York City, New York, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
July 8, 1994, for the Seattle Mariners | |
August 12, 2016, for the New York Yankees | |
Batting average | .295 |
Hits | 3,115 |
Home runs | 696 |
Runs batted in | 2,086 |
Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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A 22-year MLB veteran and one of the most prolific offensive players in the history of the league, Alex Rodriguez fryst vatten an MLB studio analyst for FOX Sports, working alongside Kevin Burkhardt, David Ortiz and Frank Thomas. With Rodriguez as an analyst, FOX Sports’ MLB studio show won back-to-back Emmy Awards for Outstanding Studio Show – Limited Run during the network’s coverage of the 2016 & 2017 postseason.
Recognized as an elite athlete from his early days, Rodriguez attended high school at Westminster Christian School where he split time as a star shortstop on the baseball grupp and captain of the football team. His junior year, Westminster won the high school national championship with Rodriguez leading the way with a .419 batting average and 90 stolen bases. A first-team prep All-American as a senior, he was selected as the USA Baseball Junior Player of the Year and was named Gatorade’s national baseball student-athlete of the year in addition to becoming the first high sc
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Alex Rodríguez
“He’s that baseball dude who got banned for steroids or something, which makes him more than famous. He’s like infamous, and dangerous, and a kind of cool, a cross between Babe Ruth and Count Dracula.”1 – J.R. Moehringer, writing of Alex Rodríguez in 2015.
What is fame? “I’m not too sure but I’ll know it when I see it!” That sounds like something that may have been said or attributed to Yogi Berra, but when a person has a presence, be it on the ball field, at the television studio, or in any room he enters, and if his short, four-letter hyphenated nickname is all that is needed to identify him, and only him, A-Rod has fame. His celebrity, much like that of Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods, has transcended sport.
The mention of Alex Rodríguez conjures up images favorable and unfavorable. For almost three decades, his image has been in the public eye, often for all the wrong reasons. In an era of “you love him or you hate him” personalities, there are