A-Rod: A man of two sides

At this point in the whole Alex Rodriduez story he has signed with the all time best franchise in major league baseball; the New York Yankees. The book goes on to say how a team like this is a better fit for Alex with him being able to perform in the limelight well not having the responsibility of his team and his teammates put on his shoulder. If there is one thing I've learned about him in this book it is that he is not a leader. A lot of comparing goes on between him and Derek Jeter and it becomes very apparent that Jeter is way more of a leader type than Alex is. Even in the day when A-Rod played for Texas whenever there was pressure put on him steer the vessle he began to underperform. Teamates described him as being a player in his own world who didn't really didn;t put as much effort into the teams performance as he did to putting up his own big numbers on the stats sheet. He made a lot of teammates mad because he would seek special treatment in the clubhouse by having his own personal attendant and demanding a private jet to be at his disposal. He was never really protrayed as a team player and was not what the Texas management was expecting when they signed him to a 10-year $252 million contract, the biggest ever in MLB. Sure Alex was a star slugger who put up huge numbers and won MVP's, but the teams was losing with him. He is a great player but as we would later find out he was a user of steroids and his image was damaged by acts of sometimes selfish indulgments. But alex as a baseball player atleast in my books is a Hallof Famer.