Bill James once wrote, “I’ve become convinced that every player who plays the game at the major league level for any length of time leaves an image lingering behind him, that if you really understood the history of baseball, that if one could see baseball, so to speak, with the eyes of God, one could see in each and every baseball game the image of every good and great player who has ever played.”
Alex Rodriguez’s shadow over the game looms large, as you would expect from a player of his stature. Sometimes that shadow is small.