He’s Baaaaaaacccck: The Five Reasons A-Rod is Turning a Corner
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — 1. Rest Will Do a Body Good Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees brass continued to ignore Dr. Mark Philippon’s post-surgical rehabilitation guidelines through the first six weeks of his faster-than-anticipated return. Though initially instructed to rest once a week during this time period, A-Rod ...

Too Early for Olney to Say A-Rod is Done
downswinging.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, the topic of ESPN’s Buster Olney’s blog/column was A-Rod and his struggles since returning from surgery. Olney said that A-Rod has been taking longer to reach first base, has been fielding poorly and isn’t catching up to fastballs. True, at the time Olney was ...

A-Rod can’t return to old form?
nyyankeesrumors.com 6/27/2009 — A-Rod The Yankees didn’t go by the doctors orders and A-Rod suffered for it. You know Alex likes to play each and everyday, so it was hard for them to take him out of the lineup. His performance would obviously go down coming off major hip surgery. I mean..the guy didn’t get ...

Olney’s premature obituary for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, Buster Olney wrote a premature obituary of sorts for A-Rod . Noting that A-Rod ’s numbers are way down this year, Olney speculated that the post-steroid-confession, post-surgery A-Rod isn’t anything close to the late-20’s ...

Will A-Rod, Manny Ramirez be great without steroids? - Jeff Pearlman - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com 6/26/2009 — It is widely known that performance-enhancing drugs help baseball players. Alex Rodriguez is a baseball player. Alex Rodriguez used performance-enhancing drugs. Alex Rodriguez presumably no longer uses performance-enhancing drugs. As of Friday ...

A-Rod is the key to Yankees offense
lennysyankees.com 7/17/2009 — The Yankees lead the majors in runs, RBIs, walks, total bases, OBP and SLG. All five categories are specialties of Alex Rodriguez , who has riding the hit train in July. A-Rod’s batting average sank as low as .207 in June, but is now up to .256 thanks to 22 hits in his last 59 at bats. His ...

Set Expectations for A-Rod at Wait-and-See
nybaseballdigest.com 6/22/2009 — There is much hand-wringing over Alex Rodriguez, his .213/.371/.456 batting line, and the eight-plus years remaining on his contract. It is understandable, of course: for the kind of money the Yankees are paying A-Rod, more was expected. These are supposed to be the seasons that justify the ...

More rest planned for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/22/2009 — The more I think about this weekend’s A-Rod injury flap, the more I wonder how the Yankees could get this one so wrong. Just two months removed from a major labrum procedure, Joe Girardi penciled A-Rod into the lineup for 38 straight games. He ...

All the best third basemen have daddy issues
riveraveblues.com 6/6/2009 — When Selena Roberts broke the story in February that A-Rod was one of the 104 names on the supposedly anonymous list of steroid users, we quickly learned that she did so while in the process of researching a book about the Yanks’ enigmatic ...

A-Rod and the Yankees beat Seattle again, and cook up a storm
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — Yankee games are getting to be predictable - in a good way! Last night, the Yankees won their seventh win in a row, and A-Rod homered for the second night in a row to give the Yanks the lead. While it looks like Alex Rodriguez's decade-long streak of being a starter at the All-Star Game is ...

A-Rod, Manny notable by absence — Major League Baseball News 7/5/2009
The selection of the 2009 All-Stars is notable as much for who wasn't chosen -- namely Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez -- as who was tabbed for the Midsummer Classic.

A Glance at Greatness: The Cleveland Indians All-Time Team — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/6/2009
This is the eighth article in a series dedicated to selecting all-time teams for all current 30 major league franchises. To view the others, click  http://bleacherreport.com/users/6779-Schmitters Team Name: Cleveland Indians Year ...

Live Chat: Manny and the Mets — Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs 7/6/2009
We'll talk about the reeling Mets - and the arrival of Manny Ramirez at Citi Field - in a live chat tomorrow morning at 11:30. Log in at 11 to start submitting questions. Surfing the Mets Live Chat

Torre talks Manny, steroids in New York — Major League Baseball News 7/6/2009
With the Dodgers in New York for a three-game series, manager Joe Torre took time on Monday before his annual charity golf tournament to meet with the New York media to discuss the return of suspended slugger Manny Ramirez and the effect of steroids ...

Blue Jays 7, Yankees 6: Toronto’s Rookie Pitcher Stymies the Yankees — NYT > Baseball 7/6/2009
Adding a bit of style to his substance, Toronto’s Ricky Romero subdued the Yankees with fastballs and sliders, moving through a powerful lineup until the seventh.