Grayson Rodriguez was universally lauded as a highly rated prospect. Beginning selected 11th overall in 2018 showed he was highly prized. That draft ranking was supported as he climbed up prospect rankings charts and the minor leagues. Entering both the 2022 and 2023 seasons he was seen as the 6th best prospect in all of baseball by MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n
Like many young players, he had both success and setbacks when he made it to Major League Baseball. In 2023 Grayson made 23 starts and racked up 129 strikeouts in 122 innings. He also issued too many free passes and gave up some hard contact and finished the year as a slightly below average pitcher.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Rodriguez showed signs of progress. His K\/9 and BB\/9 numbers both improved and he finished the season with an ERA+ of 100, meaning he was exactly league average. He seemed to be on the path to fulfilling his prospect pedigree when an injury ended his season on July 31st. He has not pitched since.<\/p>\n
If healthy, what does Rodriguez bring to the table?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grayson Rodriguez was universally lauded as a highly rated prospect. Beginning selected 11th overall in 2018 showed he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-164809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}