The popular consensus on A-Rod (to cite the most prominent current example) is he’s a “regular-season,” player, a “numbers guy,” who’s a girly-man when it really counts. It’s a real and obliteratingly large black mark on his career, supposedly. Exhibit A for this contention is his postseason record, which is .279/.361/.483 in 149 at bats, well off his regular-season career line of .306/.388/.577.
Here’s another career postseason line: .247/.323/.337 in 89 at bats. That would be the work of noted girly-man Willie Mays.
Ted Williams played in one World Series and had five singles in 25 at-bats. Hornsby: .245/.288/.327 in 89 at bats. That’s 113, 146 and 250 points below his career regular season numbers. Ty Cobb: .262/.314/.354 in 65 at bats. In the biggest games of his career, Ty Cobb made out 69 percent of the time. That’s Ty Freakin’ Cobb, people. What a gutless loser.
DiMaggio, in 199 at bats: .271/.338/.422. Those are for Joe, not Dom, and they’re off his regular-season averages by an aggregate 275 points. Mantle, in 230 ABs: .257/.374/.535. OK, the .535 slugging is pretty strong, but his career slugging is .557. Honus Wagner: 51 at bats, .275/.393/.373. Joe Morgan: 181 at bats, .182(!)/.323/.348.
Buncha wussies.
