Dr. Giganto

that list of pitchers I named were the ones that he played against in his first 8 playoff games with the Yankees, against which he batted .368, OBP'ed .455, and slugged .789

Doing that, in a Yankees uniform, against Johan, Radke, Silva, Johan, Schilling, Pedro, Arroyo, Lowe is impressive. Take that in, because apparently you misunderstood the first time. In 4 games against the 3 best pitchers in the AL at the time, plus 4 other games against good pitchers, A-Rod batted .368 and OPS'ed 1.244...IN A YANKEE UNIFORM!

My point is, if you gave A-Rod 1,000 playoff games, in whatever uniform/city/media market you choose, his overall numbers would probably end up being similar to his regular season numbers.

Captain Clutch, Derek Jeter's career regular season batting average is .318. His career playoff batting average... .314. Regular season OBP: .390, playoffs: .384

Bernie Williams is another player that everybody loves to point out as being really clutch during the Yankees playoff run. Regular season OPS: .857, playoff OPS: .851

David Ortiz playoff OPS: .935, regular season OPS: .929

See a pattern here? Over time, almost all players' numbers in the playoffs end up being similar to their overall numbers. But if you havent played THAT many playoff games, it's easy to be significantly better or worse than your career average.