A-rod and 3,000 hits

[Blackout]

if Alex Rodriguez gets 3,000 hits where does that rank him all time?

[willshad]

if Alex Rodriguez gets 3,000 hits where does that rank him all time?

at number 28...tied with Clemente.

[redban]

No need to say "if" he gets 3000 hits. He has 5 1/2 more seasons on his contract, and he only needs 139 hits. In other words, it's guaranteed.

As for his ranking, his years with Texas are tainted, aren't they? And who knows if he used when with Seattle; he said he didn't.. but....

Anyway, steroid or no steroids, he's below Honus Wagner on the Shortstop list.

[willshad]

No need to say "if" he gets 3000 hits. He has 5 1/2 more seasons on his contract, and he only needs 139 hits. In other words, it's guaranteed.

As for his ranking, his years with Texas are tainted, aren't they? And who knows if he used when with Seattle; he said he didn't.. but....

Anyway, steroid or no steroids, he's below Honus Wagner on the Shortstop list.

I really do not see A-rod playing 5 more years after this one. If he is, he may be batting about .100 by then.

[redban]

But he's under contract for 20+ million/ yr until 2017... and he has all those bonuses for getting the HR record.

Will he be allowed to just retire early, with all that money owed to him?

[pheasant]

3000+ hits, 700+ HRs, and 300+ SBs along with stellar SS defense puts him in the top 15. I personally cannot stand this guy. But his career numbers are unparalleled in many ways and cannot be ignored. If we factor in even a modest linear increase in league quality over the past 100 years, then he cracks the top 10, which is reasonable. Some may say he'd rank even higher. But Bonds does a good job a knocking him down a few notches.

[JR Hart]

AROD is arguably the best SS ever AND the best 3B ever. What else could his legacy be except sterling?

And I don't hold steroid use against him one bit. He was ratted out years after taking a CONFIDENTIAL screening. I'm way more upset that the results were kept and leaked. Remember, he was a poster boy for the clean players, until the rat. That should tell us a lot about the steroid era.

[Honus Wagner Rules]

at number 28...tied with Clemente.

[Second Base Coach]

AROD is arguably the best SS ever AND the best 3B ever.

What an interesting thought. If you put 20 people in one room and twenty people in another, and one rank SS and the other 3B, ARod would surely be on both lists if the people deciding were knowledgeable and were not limited on where they had to place someone like him on the diamond.

It would also be interesting to see Ernie Banks on the SS list but not the 1B list. Rod Carew is another interesting case.

Pete Rose would be a little messier. I remember him mostly strongly as a third baseman. Folks here at the Fever hardly ever place him there and opt for the outfield or first base.

[Dude Paskert]

What an interesting thought. If you put 20 people in one room and twenty people in another, and one rank SS and the other 3B, ARod would surely be on both lists if the people deciding were knowledgeable and were not limited on where they had to place someone like him on the diamond.

It would also be interesting to see Ernie Banks on the SS list but not the 1B list. Rod Carew is another interesting case.

Pete Rose would be a little messier. I remember him mostly strongly as a third baseman. Folks here at the Fever hardly ever place him there and opt for the outfield or first base.

I always think of Pete as a 3Bman, too, followed by 2B, OF, then first.
But, my #1 mental image is of him diving headfirst into a base just for the hell of it.

I wouldn't trust ARod's account of the limits of his steroid usage. The whole era is just a mess as far as the legacies of most of the top players are concerned, and I don't trust in characterizations of players like Griffey Jr. as being clearly clean...we'll probably know most of the rest of the story within 20-30 years, and some of it will never come to light.

[PlanetZoltan]

So if ARod does make it to the Hall, which position does he go as? Short or third?

[NJYankeeFan]

So if ARod does make it to the Hall, which position does he go as? Short or third?

Probably 3rd but really should be short. He guy moved for the good of his team and to appease a lesser teammate.

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[PlanetZoltan]

My thought was if he goes to the Hall as a Yankee, which i imagine he would, he would have to go in as a 3rd baseman.

But a big part of his legacy is the numbers he put up as a shortstop. Kind of a puzzler.

[JR Hart]

So if ARod does make it to the Hall, which position does he go as? Short or third?

good grief, if he doesn't, close the building

[chicagowhitesox1173]

He's a hofer but he's like Bonds in my eyes. 3000 hits doesn't mean much for him in my opinion. Does he deserve a hof plaque? Sure but I wont look at him like Ted Williams or Babe Ruth.