Yesterday, I wrote about the Alex Rodriguez trade, and I don’t think you can discuss his legacy without including a conversation about his playoff performances, and indeed, the multi-year failure of the Yankees to recapture their late-90s postseason dominance. It’s not entirely A-Rod’s fault — in the series I’m about to talk about, the Yankees started Literally Jaret Wright in an elimination game — but as the best player, and highest paid, he was expected to carry the freight for a postseason run.
And in the 2006 ALDS against the Tigers, he was awful: 1-for-14, with a single, hit by a pitch, and four strikeouts in four games.