A-rod begins to heat up

At the beginning of '10, A-rod just wasn't himself. He hit .250 in April with just 2 homers and 14 RBI. Then he seemed to turn it on in May, hitting .330 with 5 homers and 27 RBI. But then, at least partially because of his groin injury, A-rod hit just .220 with just 1 homer and 4 RBI in the 15 games he played between June 1st and June 21st. But since then, A-rod has finally shown some flashes of his former self. He has hit .417 since June 21st, with 2 homers and 7 RBI. In these 4 games, A-rod hit more homers and drove in more runs than he had all of June before this little streak.

Is A-rod back? Well, 4 games is a very short stretch of time. We'll have to see. But, from these 4 games we can see that A-rod can still do it. He can still be that player who the Yankees signed to such a huge contract. Can he do it consistently the rest of the year? That remains to be seen. Still, we can now justify having hope that A-rod will put up his career averages of 35 homers and 103 RBI per season. With 10 homers and 52 RBI in 68 games, he is currently on pace for 22 homers and 114 RBI, which would still be a pretty good year for A-rod, but, he would have hit less than 30 homers in a season for the first time since 1997. Hopefully A-rod can stay on this little hot streak and his homers will catch up to his RBI's.