Alex Rodriguez NY Yankees 1 oz .999 Fine Silver Limited Edition Commemorative Medallion W/ Box & COA

Alex Rodriguez NY Yankees 1 oz .999 Fine Silver Limited Edition Commemorative Medallion W/ Box & COA 

Alexander "Alex" Emmanual Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975) is an American professional baseball player of Major League Baseball (MLB )for the New York Yankees as a third baseman and shortstop. He has played for previous teams such as the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. Renowned for being the most highly touted player and viewed as one of the greats in baseball history. Rodriguez has built quite a career. In his 20 years in the sport, he has accumulated a .299 batting average, with 654 home runs, 1,969 runs batted in (RBI's), and 2,939 hits. In addition, he has won three American League (AL)  Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, two Golden Glove Awards and has been an All-Star Player Fourteen times. Rodriguez and his career has been the topic of controversial topics due to illegal use of performance-enhancing drugs.  

Drafted by the Mariners out of high school in the 1993 MLB Draft picks and debuted in his first MLB games the following year at 18 years of age. Rodriguez became the Mariners cornerstone player, becoming the starting shortstop and coming in second in the 1996 AL MVP Award votings. After the 2000 season, he chose to leave via free agency to join the Texas Rangers signing the richest baseball contract in history, 10 years $252 million. He played at a high level for three years, winning his first AL MVP Award in 2003. Before the start of the 2004 season, Rodriguez was traded to the New York Yankees becoming their third baseman. During his first four seasons in the Yankees, he was named AL MVP. He then opted out of his contract in 2007 and then resigned a new 10 year $275 million contract with the New York Yankees. His career continued with him becoming the youngest player to hit 500 career home runs and 600 home runs, reaching a milestone in 2007 and 2010. Rodriguez won his first championship with the Yankees in 2009, following that year as the career leader in home runs by a player of Hispanic descent. Over his career, he has been hampered by hip and knee injuries leading to his performance-enhancing controversial topics..

He has admitted to using steroids in an interview with Katie Couric on 60-Minutes due to peer pressures from 2001 to 2003. During his recovery of a hip injury, he ran into a scandal about performance-enhancing drugs. He was then suspended for 162 games keeping him from playing the entire 2014 season.

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