Expanding on this point, would Fire_Theo think Vladimir Guerrero sucked in 2004? After all, he played for the Expos longer than Bay played for the Pirates.
Obvious scrub!!!!!
Expanding on Gom's point about Rodriguez batting .900 to make up for his failures in the clutch.
He did have a 1.138 OPS with RISP in 2007. I guess that's almost as good as what you expected.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/bsplit.cgi?n1=rodrial01&year=00
Scroll down to the Bases Occupied category.
LOL UNCLUTCH ROD HU WON THE PEPSI CLUTCH PERFORMER LAST YEAR DOESNT HAVE A SINGLE RISP STAT UNDER A .900 OPS. LOL IM LOVIN IT!!!!
There was no point, it was a fact.
You said, "the FO handed him a rotation spot." He was given a rotation spot, because they had no real other option, when Schilling and Beckett went down.
The FO wanted him to learn more at AAA. He wasn't projected to be in the rotation in March.
Buchholz was supposed to start the year at AAA.
Beckett, Schilling, Dice-K, Wakefield, and Lester were the orginal five starters. Schilling got hurt, Beckett went on the DL, and the Red Sox had little choice other than to go with Buchholz.