Alex Rodriguez: A Look Back at A-Rod’s Most Cringe-Worthy Moments

Throughout his MLB career, Alex Rodriguez (aka “A-Rod”) was not only a great ballplayer, but he was also a non-stop fountain of cringe-worthy moments.

Once a lauded baseball player, Alex Rodriguez was twice implicated in MLB’s on-going performance-enhancing scandal. Over the last few years, however,  A-Rod has undergone one of the great comebacks of all-time.

Now, this isn’t a story about A-Rod’s incredible journey from rock bottom, it’s more of a look at how the once lightning-rod became one of baseball’s most hated figures.

We know it wasn’t his performance on the field that made him so hated. A quick glance at his stats and you’ll see that his on-field performance is perhaps one of the few reasons people actually liked A-Rod during his playing days.

I mean, how many players have been able to put together the type of resume A-Rod has:

• 4th all-time in HR with 696
• 3rd all-time in RBI with 2086
• 21st all-time in H with 3115
• 14x All-Star and 3x MVP

Alex Rodriguez’s rise to become public enemy number one in MLB was the result of 20 years worth of incidents that left baseball fans all over the world wondering, “what the heck is wrong with this guy?”

It all came to head after the Biogenesis scandal, which in and of itself was really one of the most bizarre incidents in American sports history (see Billy Corben’s “Screwball: A Batsh*t Tale of Steroids, Schemers, and Baseball Stars”).

Without further ado, let’s take a look at some of A-Rod’s most cringe-worthy moments no particular order. Make sure to cast your vote on the last slide of this piece.