There’s a short list of people who actually like Alex Rodriguez. To find one of those people, I’d imagine is nearly impossible. It’s not that A-Rod tries to be the bad guy; that’s just who he is and who he’ll always be.
Rodriguez, who used to be one of the top players in baseball, has been continually linked to steroids and he has even admitted the use of performance-enhancing drugs. When it finally seemed like A-Rod was off the juice, injuries started to take a toll on him and his lucrative contract began to look embarrassingly stupid.
Over the last two seasons, A-Rod has played in 221 games, hitting 34 home runs with an OPS of .801. Over the course of his career, A-Rod has hit at least 34 home runs in a season 12 times. Yes, 12 times! But the fact that he’ll likely miss majority of the 2013 season, if not all of it, because of a second hip operation speaks to how overpaid and overvalued he truly is. He’s set to make $28 million this year.
In a 2012 Men’s Journal poll of 100 players, Rodriguez was voted the second-most hated player in baseball. So it’s not only fans who dislike the third baseman, but those who play alongside of and against him as well.
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