A-Rod's Out; Does It Help The Yanks?

I know, I know. Another blog on A-Rod. Believe me, I dislike writing about him just as much as you guys hate reading about him (and we know that because you’ve left us plenty of comments telling us so).

But the latest news that A-Rod will be out until May has to be discussed. But I figure we mix it up; instead of dissecting what this means for Rodriguez, how about what his absence will do for the Yanks.

The way I see it, A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT!

With A-Rod recovering in Colorado, the Yankees can finally return to a relative sense of normalcy.

A-Rod was making news seemingly every day, and every day down in Tampa was a media circus. I still can’t believe that in the spring that the Yankees spend half a billion dollars, we have barely talked about AJ, CC, and Tex. It’s been all A-Rod all the time.

Now with A-Rod out of the picture for a month or so, the focus can finally shift to baseball. Hopefully some attention will be paid to the new hired guns (and that includes us here at PIX. We’ve been hamstrung by this A-Rod junk just like everyone else).

And, I might be stating the obvious here, but you know those guys are at their wits end discussing A-Rod every day. Talking about whether Cody Ransom can cut it at third base will be a breeze compared to the A-Rod nonsense.

It seems like the only downside to A-Rod’s absence will be the team missing out on Rodriguez’s typically MONSTER months of April and May. We all know he kills it in the beginning of the season.

Come to think of it, maybe the Yanks would have been better off if A-Rod played now, and went the surgery route in September/October….because you know he won’t hit above .150 when it counts.

Matt Estreich for The Huddle