Rodriguez is considered one of the best baseball players of all time. Allen Barra (29 August 2006). "Atlas slugged '. The Village Voice. Archived from the original on November 30, 2015. </ Ref> February 1 is the youngest player to hit 500 home runs, breaking the record set by Jimmie Foxx in 1939, and the youngest to reach 600 player, surpassing the record Babe Ruth for a year.
For 14 seasons he has made more than 200 runs, more than any other player in history. On September 24, 2010, Alex hit two homeruns, surpassing the mark of 609 homeruns Sammy Sosa, and becoming the leader of all time in home runs for a player descent hispana.3
In December 2007, Rodriguez and the Yankees agreed to a 10-year contract for $ 275 million. This was the largest contract in baseball history (breaking its previous record of $ 252 million)
Primeros años
Background [edit]He was born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York from a Dominican family. When he was four, they moved to the Dominican Republic, then to Miami, Florida. Rodriguez's favorite players when I was young were Keith Hernandez, Dale Murphy, and Cal Ripken, Jr .. His favorite team was the New York Mets.5
University [edit]
He signed a letter of intent to play baseball at the University of Miami and was also recruited by the university to play quarterback for their football team. Rodriguez rejected the Miami baseball scholarship and never played college baseball, opting instead to sign with the Seattle Mariners after being selected in the first round of the amateur draft at the age of 17 years.
Carrera
Seattle Mariners[editar]
He was drafted in the first group of the Seattle Mariners in 1993 by Roger Jongewaard who took him out of school. In 1994, Rodriguez played in the AAA affiliate of Seattle, Calgary Cannons. In 32 games, he gave 37 hits in 119 at-bats for a batting average de.311. He also compiled six homeruns and 21 runs impulsadas.Rodríguez rose rapidly through the Mariners organization and made his major league debut as the shortstop owner the July 8, 1994, in Boston at 18 years old. It was the third shortstop of 18 years of age to play in the majors since 1900. He also was the first baseball player 18 years of age in the last ten years, and the youngest position player in Seattle history. His first major success in the majors was a single to pitcher Sergio Valdez on July 9 at Fenway Park. Rodriguez's first season in Major League lasted only one month; the season was interrupted by the strike of Major League Baseball in 1994.
Rodriguez spent most of 1995 between the Mariners and their AAA club, losTacoma Rainiers.6 hit his first homer in the majors to pitcher Tom Gordon Kansas City on June 12. Rodriguez joined the official Major League roster permanently in August, and had his first playoff game, although only two at-bats. Again, he was the youngest player in the majors.
1996: First full season and jump to stardom [edit]
The following year, Rodriguez took regular place Mariners shortstop and emerged as a star, hitting 36 homers, driving 123 runs and leading the American League with a batting average de.358, the highest for a right batter league since Joe DiMaggio bateó.381 in 1939 and the third highest by a shortstop of 21, was the third youngest leader in batting behind Al Kaline (20 years) in 1955 and Ty Cobb (20) in 1907 and the 3.erjugador youngest in history with 35 home runs. It was also the first shortstop in the majors to win a batting title since 1960, and first in the American League since 1944, and with 20 years and 11 months, was the youngest SS in the history of MLB to participate in-Star Game. He also led the American League in runs scored doubles (141), total bases (379) and (54) and ranks among the league leaders in hits (2nd, 215), extra base hits (2nd with 91), multi-hit games (3rd with 65), slugging (4th con.631), RBI (8th with 123) and on-base percentage (8th con.414) .Rodríguez had the highest record for a shortstop in runs, hits, doubles, extra base hits, and slugging, and tied for highest total bases, and set a record in Seattle on average, runs, hits, doubles and total bases in a season that statistical analysts consider the best year of all time for SS.7
He was selected by Sporting News and Associated Press as Major League Player of the Year (Major League player of the Year), and was about to become the youngest MVP (Most Valuable Player) in baseball history, finishing second after Juan Gonzalez in one of the most controversial elections in recent tiempos.8 MVP three points Rodríguezfinalizó Gonzalez (290-287), the second tightest competition to elect the MVP in the history of MLB.
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