HBT: Yanks should move slumping A-Rod in lineup

I?m not going to go all ?blame A-Rod? here. The fact is that baseball?s active home run leader wasn?t half bad on Monday night. He lined into a double play in his first at-bat, but that as just bad luck: the ball was scalded. He had a clean single his second time up.

Of course, that was pretty much it. Rodriguez went up to the plate three more times: he flied out in the fifth and then struck out in the seventh and ninth. The second strikeout ended the game as the Orioles won 3-2 to even the best-of-five series.

In all, Rodriguez has five strikeouts to go along with his single and a walk in 10 plate appearances against the Orioles. He did finish the regular season okay, going 6-for-15 with four walks and three strikeouts in his last four games. However, he was in a 2-for-24 slump before that. He has one extra-base since Sept. 14 and one RBI since Sept. 19.

In short, Rodriguez looks like the easiest out in the Yankees lineup right now. He?s not getting around on good fastballs, and when he does get a mistake breaking ball, he?s not driving it out of the park. It?s not that Rodriguez can?t hit in the playoffs or needs to be benched or any of that nonsense. It?s just that with the way he looks right now ? and with the way he?s looked pretty much the whole year ? he?s probably more of a No. 6 hitter than a guy who should be hitting ahead of Robinson Cano. Switching him and Mark Teixeira would make a lot of sense.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/09/the-yankees-gotta-get-alex-rodriguez-out-of-the-three-hole/related

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