{"id":227348,"date":"2026-03-30T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:53:06","slug":"texas-shortstop-adrian-rodriguez-to-miss-2-3-weeks-due-to-a-minor-hand-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227348\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Shortstop Adrian Rodriguez to Miss 2-3 Weeks due to a Minor Hand Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/baseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Longhorns<\/a> will be without shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/adrian-rodriguez\/15068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Rodriguez<\/a> for 2-3 weeks, according to Orangebloods\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zachatthedisch\/status\/2038633111479624038?s=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zachary Symm<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez will undergo a minor hand procedure after re-aggravating a previous injury. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/baseball\/article\/adrian-rodriguez-texas-shortstop-injury-update-22159540.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>, the Texas shortstop had been playing through pain during the month of March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez and his career with Texas<\/p>\n<p>This season, Rodriguez is putting together a solid sophomore season with the Longhorns. He has a .271 batting average, 10 doubles, and 18 RBIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had a hit in every game this past weekend when Texas swept Oklahoma in a weekend series at Disch-Falk Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Rodriguez was a Perfect Game first-team Freshman All-American. He had a .313 batting average, a .410 on-base percentage, seven home runs, and 23 RBIs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez has also been a big-time base-stealing threat for Texas in his career. He has 23 career stolen bases thus far during his time playing in Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Longhorns infield without Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>With Rodriguez not playing shortstop for the time being, Texas will have to shift the infield around a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns\u2019 current third baseman, Temo Becerra, is a likely candidate to take up the position.\u00a0 Becerra has experience playing shortstop dating back to his time with the Stanford Cardinal before he transferred to Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Texas<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Longhorns have a 23-4 overall record and are 7-2 in Southeastern Conference (SEC) play. They are the number two team in <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/top-25\/d1baseball-four-teams-enter-rankings-after-tumultuous-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D1 Baseball\u2019s most recent top 25 rankings<\/a>. The only team ranked higher than them is UCLA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next game for Texas is on Tuesday, March 31, against the Texas State Bobcats. The game is at Disch-Falk Field in Austin, and the first pitch is at 7:30 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas defeated Texas State 15-4 back on March 10 when the two teams played in San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>WBN\u00a0NCAA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldbaseball.com\/league\/ncaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/worldbaseball.com\/league\/ncaa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO: Texas infielder Adrian Rodriguez during an NCAA baseball game against Coastal Carolina on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo\/Michael Wyke)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Longhorns will be without shortstop Adrian Rodriguez for 2-3 weeks, according to Orangebloods\u2019\u00a0Zachary Symm.\u00a0\u00a0 Rodriguez will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-227348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}