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Dec 19, 2009 -- 2:11PM, RichGossageHOF wrote:

Dec 19, 2009 -- 12:28AM, ratman wrote:

Dec 17, 2009 -- 11:17PM, RichGossageHOF wrote:

Dec 17, 2009 -- 11:08PM, ratman wrote:

listen i am a big fan of posada and all but when it came to protecting arod , noone did it better than  matsui . plain and simple

ok, rat...but trust me. A-rod is going to get his numbers....teams are not going to start mass walking him now because Matsui isn't hitting behind him. Posada will slide into the #5 spot and do just fine.

did you forget all the walks  to arod when cano was hitting behind him?!?!  heck i saw arod get walked more than once in a game with men on  just so they could face cano . 

i don't know what to tell you, rat....Cano isn't going to be hitting behind A-Rod...Posada is...and Posada is a 25 HR, 80-90 RBI guy who hits .280ish...teams are not going to be giving A-Rod the barry bonds treatment to pitch to posada.

trust me, rat...it will be fine...even when Matsui was here and healthy he was still giving a chunck of the ABs out of the 5 hole to posada anyway.

actually you are wrong ,  once cano was taken out of the 5th spot , matsui was put there and that was back in july . heck matsui was the 5th hitter throughout the playoffs with the exception of the 3 games in philly

Dec 19, 2009 -- 2:25PM, RichGossageHOF wrote:

Dec 19, 2009 -- 2:19PM, ratman wrote:

Dec 19, 2009 -- 2:11PM, RichGossageHOF wrote:

Dec 19, 2009 -- 12:28AM, ratman wrote:

Dec 17, 2009 -- 11:17PM, RichGossageHOF wrote:

Dec 17, 2009 -- 11:08PM, ratman wrote:

listen i am a big fan of posada and all but when it came to protecting arod , noone did it better than  matsui . plain and simple

ok, rat...but trust me. A-rod is going to get his numbers....teams are not going to start mass walking him now because Matsui isn't hitting behind him. Posada will slide into the #5 spot and do just fine.

did you forget all the walks  to arod when cano was hitting behind him?!?!  heck i saw arod get walked more than once in a game with men on  just so they could face cano . 

i don't know what to tell you, rat....Cano isn't going to be hitting behind A-Rod...Posada is...and Posada is a 25 HR, 80-90 RBI guy who hits .280ish...teams are not going to be giving A-Rod the barry bonds treatment to pitch to posada.

trust me, rat...it will be fine...even when Matsui was here and healthy he was still giving a chunck of the ABs out of the 5 hole to posada anyway.

 

actually you are wrong ,  once cano was taken out of the 5th spot , matsui was put there and that was back in july . heck matsui was the 5th hitter throughout the playoffs with the exception of the 3 games in philly

what do you mean i'm wrong?

i wasn't talking about just this season, rat. I'm talking about the whole time A-Rod has been here. While Matsui has been the main guy hitting behind A-Rod, Posada has still got a solid amount of games in the 5 spot during A-Rods time in the bronx. Thats not wrong.

actually in 2008 niether posada or matsui hit behind arod .   and i was talking about this last year alone .   remember arod didnt become clutch until this year with matsui hitting behind him