Alex Rodriguez’s ex-wife, Cynthia Rodriguez Nicolas (née Scurtis), explained how his all-encompassing baseball career prevented him from making necessary strides in his personal life.

“I felt sorry for him. I did,” Nicolas said in the first episode of HBO’s Alex vs ARod, which premiered on Thursday, November 6. “He was a sweet guy. He had a really big heart. But he was so stunted when it came to the natural development of a person. He was so entrenched in baseball. He was told that’s what he was going to do for so long, and it’s all he did.”

Rodriguez, 50, and Nicolas, 52, were married from 2002 to 2008 and share daughters Natasha, 20, and Ella, 17.

“Alex is a creature of habit and baseball was all he did,” Nicolas explained. “If he wasn’t hitting, he was throwing. If he wasn’t throwing

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