Álex Rodríguez

Positions: Shortstop and Third Baseman
Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right
6-3, 230lb (190cm, 104kg)
Born: July 27, 1975 in New York, NY
Draft: Drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 1st round (1st) of the 1993 MLB June Amateur Draft from Westminster Christian School (Miami, FL).
High School: Westminster Christian School (Miami, FL)
Debut: July 8, 1994 (Age 18-346d, 16,557th in major league history)
vs. BOS 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Last Game: August 12, 2016 (Age 41-016d)
vs. TBR 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB
Agents: Jay Reisinger, Jim Sharp • Previously: Scott Boras, Susy Dunand
National Team: us USA (WBC,18U)
Full Name: Alexander Enmanuel Rodriguez
Nicknames: A-Rod
Twitter: @AROD
Instagram: @arod
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Notable Events and Chronology for Career

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July 8, 1994

Red Sox shortstop John Valentin snares Marc Newfield’s sixth-inning line drive, steps on second retiring Mike Blowers, and then tags the runner coming from first, Kevin Mitchell, to turn an unassisted triple play. After completing the rare feat, accomplishing a play that has occurred only ten times in major league history, the infielder begins a three-homer outburst by Boston in the bottom of the frame, helping the team defeat the Mariners at Fenway Park, 4-3.

March 31, 1996

Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox play the earliest Opening Day game in history

September 1, 1996

Alex Rodriguez borrows a bat from Ken Griffey and belts a 3-run homer to lead the Mariners to a 5 – 1 win

November 1, 1996

A major league All-Star team opens an eight-game series in Japan with a 6 – 5 loss to the Japan All-Stars

November 14, 1996

Texas Rangers outfielder Juan Gonzalez edges Alex Rodriguez of the Seattle Mariners by three votes to win the American League MVP Award. It is the tightest race for the award in the AL since 1960. Gonzalez batted .314 with 47 home runs and 144 RBI despite missing 28 games with an injury.

May 3, 1998

Dan Wilson hits the first inside-the-park grand slam in the history of the Mariners

September 19, 1998

Mariner shortstop Alex Rodriguezbecomes the first infielder and third player in major league history to have 40 homers and 40 stolen bases in the same season.

November 18, 1998

In a close race, Juan Gonzalez wins the American League’s Most Valuable Player award for a second time

December 11, 2000

Alex Rodriguez signs the richest contract in sports history, a ten-year deal with the Rangers worth $252 million. The quarter billion dollars doubles the previous high of $126 million paid by the NBA’s Timberwolves to Kevin Garnett in a six-year agreement signed in October, 1997.

December 13, 2000

Alex Rodriguez signs the biggest deal in sports history

August 6, 2001

Boston’s backstop Scott Hatteberg hits into a triple play, but the catcher redeems himself in his next at-bat by hitting a grand slam

September 7, 2001

Ranger infielder Alex Rodriguez breaks his American League record (42 in 1998 and 1999 for the Mariners) for home runs by a shortstop with his 43rd long ball of the season. In 1958, Cub Hall of Famer Ernie Banks established the major league record for homers for that position with 47.

September 28, 2001

Ranger infielder Alex Rodriguez becomes the 20th player and first shortstop in major league history to hit 50 home runs season. The milestone blast is given up by Angel hurler Ismael Valdes in the first inning in at Edison Field in an 11-2 Texas win.

September 9, 2002

A Rod breaks his own Homerun Record for Shortstops

April 2, 2003

Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in major league history to hit 300 home runs

December 26, 2003

Major League Season RecapMajor League Baseball Season Recap 2003

February 16, 2004

New York Yankees acquire the highest-paid player in baseball – Alex Rodriguez

July 24, 2004

Billy Mueller caps off a wild game with a walk off homerun vs Yankees

October 19, 2004

The Bloody Sock Game – Schilling and Red Sox force a deciding game 7 in ALCS

April 26, 2005

 Alex Rodriguez slugs his way to the best performance of his career, hitting three home runs in his first three at-bats off Angels pitcher Bartolo Colón. The Yankees win, 12 – 4, as Rodriguez becomes only the 11th player in major league history to collect 10 or more RBI in a game. He is one RBI shy of the American League record of 11 set in 1936 by Hall of Famer and former Yankee Tony Lazzeri, and two short of the major league mark of 12 shared by Jim Bottomley (1924) and Mark Whiten (1993), both of the Cardinals.

June 8, 2005

2005 – New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest member of the 400-home run club when he hits a solo homer in the 8th inning of New York’s 12 – 3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

September 28, 2005

Alex Rodriguez breaks Joe DiMaggio’s 1937 single-season club record for home runs by a right-handed batter

November 14, 2005

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, whose 48 home runs set a league record for that position and broke a 68-year-old club mark for right-handed hitters, earns his second American League MVP Award in the closest vote since 2001. Rodriguez edges Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, 331-307, in voting by the BBWAA. He receives 16 of 28 first-place votes while Ortiz earns 11, with 2004 MVP Vladimir Guerrero of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim collecting the other to finish third with 196 points. The margin of victory is the smallest since Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki edged Oakland’s Jason Giambi, 289-281, four years ago.

November 15, 2005

Alex Rodriguez wins the American League MVP Award for the second time in three seasons

December 26, 2005

Major League Season RecapMajor League Baseball Season Recap 2005

February 17, 2006

Chicago White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen issues an apology for his comments published in Sports Illustrated criticizing Alex Rodriguez’s indecision concerning the WBC

April 17, 2007

Alex Rodriguez becomes just the third player to hit eight homers in the first 12 games or less

April 20, 2007

Alex Rodriguez becomes the second player to hit twelve home runs in the season’s first fifteen games

July 25, 2007

New York Players on cusp of career milestones

August 4, 2007

Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th homer

September 5, 2007

Alex Rodriguez hit two homers to pass Mel Ott and tie Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews all time

November 19, 2007

Alex Rodriguez wins his third American League Most Valuable Player Award

December 26, 2007

Major League Season RecapMajor League Baseball Season Recap 2007

September 3, 2008

Instant replay is used for the first time in a major league game

February 9, 2009

Alex Rodriguez publicly admits to using steroids from 2001 to 2003

February 12, 2009

BUD SELIG chastises Alex Rodriguez

August 7, 2009

The first Yankees-Red Sox game to go beyond 14 innings without a run being scored in the fabled rivalry between the American League clubs ends dramatically when Alex Rodriguez hits a game-winning home run

October 31, 2009

Alex Rodriguez’s Game 3 fly ball in the right-field corner of Citizens Bank Park becomes the subject of the first instant replay call in World Series history. The Yankee third baseman’s hit, initially ruled a double, is changed by the umpires to a home run after the replay clearly shows the ball going over the fence before striking a television camera and bouncing back to the field.

December 31, 2009

Major League Baseball 2009 Recap

April 22, 2010

The Yankees turn their first triple play in 42 years

August 4, 2010

Alex Rodriguez eclipses Babe Ruth in becoming the youngest major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs

November 23, 2010

Josh Hamilton becomes the fifth Ranger player to win the American League’s Most Valuable Player award

January 29, 2013

The Miami New Times reports that the names of at least seven major leaguers have turned up in an investigation of a recently closed clinic in Coral Gables, FL, Biogenesis Laboratories

February 1, 2013

Alex Rodriguez received weekly injections from Anthony Bosch

August 5, 2013

Major League Baseball releases the names of 13 players who have been suspended for their involvement with performance-enhancing substances supplied by the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. Thirty-eight year-old Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez receives the harshest of the punishments when he is told that he will be sidelined without pay for 211 regular-season games, much more than the 50-game suspensions given to most players implicated in the announcement.

August 11, 2013

Alex Rodriguez passes Stan Musial for 5th place on the all-time RBI list with 1,951

September 20, 2013

Yankee designated hitter Alex Rodriguez establishes a major league record with his 24th career grand slam, going deep off George Kontos in the team’s 5-1 victory over the Giants in the Bronx. The two-out seventh-inning bases-loaded round tripper surpasses the mark established in 1938 by fellow Bronx Bomber Lou Gehrig.

October 3, 2013

Alex Rodriguez announces he has filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court

January 11, 2014

Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz issues his ruling on Alex Rodriguez’s appeal of his 211-game suspension for PED use, originally issued on August 5th, reducing it to 162 games, or the entire 2014 season and postseason, costing him $25 million in salary

January 15, 2014

The Dodgers sign P Clayton Kershaw to the biggest deal in baseball history

February 7, 2014

Alex Rodriguez decides to drop his lawsuit against Major League Baseball 

February 10, 2015

Turning a New Page: Alex Rodriguez’s Apology and the Yankees’ Forward Momentum

June 19, 2015

Alex Rodriguez  joins the 3,000 hit club with a 1st-inning homer

June 3, 2017

Albert Pujols becomes the ninth major leaguer to hit 600 home runsand the only player to reach the milestone with a grand slam. The 37 year-old Los Angeles DH, the fourth youngest to accomplished the feat, behind only Babe Ruth, Alex Rodrigues, and Henry Aaron, goes deep in the fourth inning off Ervin Santana in the team’s 7-4 victory over the Twins at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

August 14, 2021

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December 14, 2021

The 1973 Congressional Hearings on Steroids in Baseball are the real black eye

March 11, 2022

Alex Rodriguez: MLB’s Finest?

December 1, 2022

Whitey Herzog’s All-time AL Team

March 16, 2023

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