The 2016 New York Yankees season will be remembered as a failed season. Make no mistake about it, this 2016 baseball season hasn’t been kind to the players in pinstripes. General Manager Brian Cashman has ultimately given up on his players, trading away the best two players on his team: Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller.

For the first time since the Buck Showalter days, the Yankees are in full rebuild mode, currently sitting in fourth place with a record of 58-56. Even though they’re six and a half games behind the division-leading Toronto Blue Jays, all signs of hope is lost in the Bronx.

Not only is First Basemen Mark Teixeira retiring at the end of this season, but  Third Basemen Alex Rodriguez will play his last game tonight against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Controversy has surrounded Alex Rodriguez his entire career. An alleged and convicted user of PEDs, or Performance Enhancing Drugs, Rodriguez will be stepping away from the game, and will take a coaching position with New York when he is done playing.

A team that Rodriguez helped take to the 2009 World Series and eventually win is screwing him over, getting the last laugh due to Rodriguez’s steroid use. A theory that the Yankees forced him to retire because he was getting close to Babe Ruth’s Homerun record seems more probable than not.

Let there be one thing clear about the career of Alex Rodriguez: Steroids don’t produce a three time AL MVP, a 14 time All-Star, and 696 Homeruns. Rodriguez may have caused headaches for the Yankees organization throughout the year, but what he did with Seattle, Texas and New York was incredible. He will go down as one of the most underrated baseball players of all time, especially with the New York Yankees.

With that being said, there have been many takes about what has gone down this past week. Bottom line is, A-Rod has been treated poorly in his final season.

Manager Joe Girardi has said that by no means is he managing a farewell, but he did the same thing with Derek Jeter. The argument can be made that Jeter was a better player on and off the field, but doesn’t take away from the fact that Rodriguez was due for one.

Girardi also said that he still has games to win. But it’s evident that with what Brian Cashman and how he’s gone about operating this team, wins won’t come that easy.

Whether it be with the Yankees not marketing his 3,000 hit the way most teams do with their players, or with Girardi refusing to let Rodriguez play his position in his final baseball game, they’ve handled it very poorly, and will ultimately regret how they’ve treated him.