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‘Baseball’s Worst Cliché’
Throughout the Yankees’ 2006 regular and post-season, I couldn’t have agreed more with Tim Marchman who wrote, “If you think about it … you immediately recognize that Derek Jeter is capable of a ‘good piece of hitting,’ while Alex Rodriguez is not” [Sports, “Baseball’s Worst Cliché,” April 17, 2007].
But on April 7, 2007, when the Yankees won over Baltimore 10 to 7, I was shocked and delighted by Alex Rodriguez’s stunning performance. I wonder if a player labeled once as not a “good piece of hitting” is always not good. For I have noticed signs of “a good piece”: a periodic single or sacrifice for the advancement of a runner, a consistent on-base presence, and a clutch-hitter performer.
Perhaps it is time for us to prepare for the second coming of A-Rod as a good piece and remind ourselves why the Yankees gave him a contract in the first place.
SARA ECKERSON
New York, N.Y.
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