Alex Rodriguez went 1 for 4 Friday night to finish the year at the Mendoza line with a .200 BA, and the Yankees beat the Rays 6-3. The Yankees own the sixth best record of the non-division leaders, but stand just 3 1/2 games out of the second wild card slot. We’ll see if their sell off and release of the dead weight of Alex Rodriguez works out better than imagined.

With Rodriguez’s career probably over, let me present his career batting splits. He finishes with a .295/.380/.550 slash line. One split that stands out to me is Bases Loaded. It’s the situation that forced opponents to really pitch to A-Rod, not pitch around him. He hit .340/.387/.695 with a record setting 25 grand slams. Yes, it’s a small sample of 310 PA, but think of it as the upper bound of his abilities.

Alex finished his career basically without a platoon difference. He was slightly better against RHP than LHP.

The Yankees go down as his easiest opponent, but he never had to face the Yankees during his decline. Otherwise, he really beat up on three AL Central teams, the Tigers, Royals, and Twins.

May and August were his best months, May for getting on base, August for power.

He hit really well batting second, and I suspect the Lineup Analysis Tool would like him in one of the top two slots.

His by inning splits are great, not that it says much about Rodriguez, but it shows the flow of pitching during a game. His stats are low in the first two innings when the starter is strong. They go up in the middle innings as the starter tires, then go back down in the late innings as the relievers enter. The stats go back up in extra innings as all the good relievers are usually used by then.

Enjoy perusing his numbers. As a bonus here is the list of every pitcher he faced at least 10 times.