Manager Joe Girardi replaced Rodriguez with Chavez? Minus 12% with minus 32%?
regular post dif Dif/Reg
Derek Jeter 0.829 0.838 0.009 1.09%
Curtis Granderson.834 0.791 -0.043 -5.16%
Raul Ibanez 0.810 0.743 -0.067 -8.27%
Alex Rodriguez 0.945 0.833 -0.112 -11.85%
Russell Martin 0.751 0.623 -0.128 -17.04%
Robinson Cano 0.854 0.686 -0.168 -19.67%
Mark Teixeira 0.896 0.662 -0.234 -26.12%
Nick Swisher 0.828 0.589 -0.239 -28.86%
Eric Chavez 0.818 0.555 -0.263 -32.15%
These numbers are for each player's entire career through the entire 2012 Major Baseball League tournament. Obviously, Rodriguez was not the worst offender, not by a long shot; he ranks fourth of nine and his post season OPS is second only to Jeter's. Did Yankee GM Brian Cashman consider this when he was assembling this team?
The public humiliation of Alex Rodriguez appears to have been motivated not by baseball but by money. Yankee ownership and management down to Girardi jeopardized the team's opportunity to advance in the 2012 tournament in order to influence Rodriguez to agree to leave the Yankees after this season so that the team can reduce its exposure to the new luxury tax that his big contract would incur. In other words the Yankees would rather lose games now than pay money later.
If the league wasn't already a disgrace it might investigate this but there is no chance of that happening.
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