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Originally posted by Animalman:
And no team is out of it at spring training. Look at Florida.

And, he played his best down the stretch, like all great players do. If Andre Dawson can win it on a last place team, Arod should be able to, as well.
But down the stretch Texas was so far out of it that it didn't really matter how well he played. That was like what the White Sox(Magglio Ordonez especially) did the past two years, where they didn't put up the numbers until after it counted.

Jayson Stark says that Arod didn't perform when they needed him to in this column...here.

Like I said, I haven't been paying attention this year, so I don't know if there are any good counters to what he's saying...