{"id":456871,"date":"2026-02-06T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:08:09","slug":"red-sox-sign-brendan-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456871\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Sign Brendan Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox reached agreement with free agent second baseman\u00a0Brendan Rodgers<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Chris Cotillo of MassLive<\/a>. The Boras Corporation client will be in camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n

Boston is seemingly taking a volume approach to second base because they didn\u2019t come away with an impact player on the trade front. Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> is the presumptive starter after agreeing to a $6MM deal<\/a> last night.\u00a0Romy Gonzalez<\/a> will get a decent amount of playing time against left-handed pitching, while\u00a0David Hamilton<\/a> and\u00a0Nick Sogard<\/a> are in the mix as utility pieces.<\/p>\n

Rodgers becomes their most experienced non-roster possibility. The 29-year-old infielder has played over six years in the majors. The third overall pick in 2015 by the Rockies, he was Colorado\u2019s primary second baseman from 2021-24. Rodgers won a Gold Glove in \u201922 thanks to a spike in his Defensive Runs Saved total. He has otherwise graded as an average defender. The righty hitter had a couple league average showings at the plate early in his career, but his production has fallen over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Rockies non-tendered Rodgers after the \u201924 season. He signed a minor league deal with the Astros and made the Opening Day roster. Rodgers stuck on the roster all year but only hit .191\/.266\/.278 with two home runs over 43 games. Injuries kept him from appearing in an MLB game after the middle of June. He went down with an oblique strain, then suffered a concussion in an on-field collision during a minor league rehab game. Rodgers tried to ramp back up in August but dealt with back discomfort that shut him down for the year.<\/p>\n

Rodgers has a .254\/.307\/.384 batting line in more than 800 plate appearances over the last three seasons. He\u2019s also held back by a lack of defensive versatility, not having played anywhere other than second base since 2021. That\u2019s not a problem if he\u2019s hitting enough to play every day, but that\u2019s a difficult profile to carry on a four-man bench. While Boston\u2019s second base spot is thin enough that it\u2019s not out of the question Rodgers wins the job, the recent returns haven\u2019t been encouraging.<\/p>\n

As a player with six years of service time who finished last season on Houston\u2019s major league injured list, Rodgers hit the market as an Article XX(b) free agent. That means this deal comes with a trio of automatic opt-out dates under the collective bargaining agreement. He can trigger an out clause on any of March 22, May 1, or June 1. If he does, the Red Sox would have two days to either promote him or grant him his release. It\u2019s therefore not a given that he\u2019d report to Triple-A if he doesn\u2019t break camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox reached agreement with free agent second baseman\u00a0Brendan Rodgers on a minor league contract, reports Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[8812,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-456871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brendan-rodgers","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}