Wallace Matthews breaks down what fans can expect from Alex Rodriguez in 2016.
NEW YORK -- Anyone who has spent any time talking to Alex Rodriguez about baseball knows this much: The guy really knows his game.
Unlike a lot of major-league ballplayers, including some whose names would surprise you, A-Rod is a student of baseball. He knows the strengths, weaknesses and tendencies of just about every player in the league, even rookies, and is among the best at breaking down what happens over the course of a game.
So it was hardly surprising when new Yankees hitting coach Alan Cockrell, asked what he had learned about A-Rod in his first season working with him as the Yankees assistant hitting coach in 2015, began his answer by mentioning Rodriguez' baseball intelligence.