Per Alex Pavlovic of NBC Bay Area, the Giants have optioned righty Dereck Rodriguez to AAA-Sacramento after catcher Erik Kratz returned from the 10-Day IL.
Rodriguez, the son of hall-of-fame catcher Ivan Rodriguez, converted to pitching in 2015 and quickly made his mark at the upper levels of the Twins and Giants systems. In 118 1/3 IP upon promotion the big club last season, Rodriguez delivered a 2.81 ERA, best among all NL rookies. The mark seemed a mirage, though, as his 112 xFIP-, on the back of 6.77 K/9 and low grounder rate, was among the league’s worst for all pitchers with at least 100 innings last season.
It didn’t take long for regression to pounce in ’19: the righty was torched for nine homers in 41 innings in the Giants’ extreme pitcher-friendly yard, and again struggled to miss bats and keep the ball on the ground. His 119 xFIP- is only slightly worse than last season’s mark, though his 5.05 ERA now more closely mirrors his subpar peripherals.
Rodriguez curried plenty of favor with the old Giants regime, but the new, data-driven one may not look quite so kindly on the contact-heavy profile.
please…im on the other side of the country and it still pains me to see Kratz still have a roster spot.
Katz probably will be gone soon when Posey returns from concussion protocol
“The righty was torched for 9 homers in 41 innings in the Giant’s extreme pitcher-friendly yard” Misleading. He’s given up 4 homers at AT&T this year, not 9.
Exactly. !
There needs to be some data relating to misinformation. Especially for this writer. What if we don’t know the correct stat and trust the writer? What if Baller and myself didn’t know the correct stat and didn’t that Bradley’s statement was wrong? Wed be misinformed by Bradley.
Is a 1fupa (f*** up per article) bad for a writer? Is it worse for a writer who likes to criticize when all we really want is info?
I had 2fupc (f up per comment). I left a word out and an apostrophe. But I don’t write for mlbtr. I’m just a dumb commenter.
I believe the writer was saying his given up 9 total hr’s. And having AT & T as ur home park, it shouldn’t be that high. With all due respect, the point the writer is making…he isn’t wrong. D-Rod has been getting lit. ERA over 5
Colby, i know what he meant but that’s not what he wrote. He erred in his writing. My points should be obvious. When you use words like pounce you are adding an editorial and that’s not the custom on this site. It’s not why we read this site. We (or most of us) just want facts. So if he wants to criticize beyond the fact reporting, then he needs to accept our critique of his writing. He calls attention to himself with his lip service so I simply gave attention back.
Claude. I stand corrected. I totally see ur point & facts are the only thing that matters. All i was getting at is I think Giants fans (Im a big 1) sometimes give our guys a pass when they’re not performing up to their contract. I understand baseball is a marathon & one shouldn’t come to a conclusion on a players performance for 1 game, or 1 week, it’s a grind & players have peaks & valleys. Example- Posey has not been a good power hitter for a while. Facts..he hasn’t had a 20 hr/year in 5 years. Last year, his backup doubled Posey’s hr total, with far fewer abs. Buster is our middle of the order big bat, & his hr & rbi totals in recent years have been less than stellar. Yet many SF fans think it blasphemy to call him out. Why? Why dont we hold him accountable. If im not doing what im paid to do, or underperform at my job…I dont have a job (im not saying fire Posey), yet people get so butt hurt if one criticizes Buster
Rodriguez’s 2.81 ERA, best among all NL rookies was 0.19 points higher Walker Buehler’s.
No worries. His papa is a multi millionaire.
I think mentally he needs to regroup himself. Before the error last night he was throwing great, and really only had one bad inning.
you sound like krukow he still lost, krukow thinks if you give up six runs in one inning and no more you had a great game.
“He still lost” to be fair he went 5 innings and didn’t give up any earned runs..
He had a high stress inning due to an error. Krukow or baller saying that doesn’t matter. It’s still a fact. Baller’s just trying to say there’s more to the loss than what the stats show. And correct me if I’m wrong here, but homeruns has nothing to do with the start. So to conclude, yes he’s given up a lot of homeruns, but last night he gave up none and lost anyway. Largely due to an error plus the fact the giants didn’t hit
Baller..”to be fair he went 5 innings w/out an er,” D-Rods WHIP was horrendous. And why to we have to “be fair.” B-ball isn’t fair nor is life. And the facts are D-Rod did lose. May not of given up an er but if he hadn’t had all those players on base, inning could’ve been far less severe. D-Rod is struggling. I mean I like the guy too, but hitters have been lighting him up lstely. ERA over 5. JS
Was waiting for this. Didn’t realize Kratz could pitch as well as catch.
It isn’t ALWAYS just the pitcher. What about the catcher calling the game?
He’s another soft tosser with poor control. Unless you got A-1 control you not going to get sh!t done throwing 90 mph with below avg off speed offerings. He reminds me of Chris Stratton. He might have occasional good outing but 7/10 times he’s going to get hit around. I wish they would give Shaun Anderson a shot, see what he can do.
He will get a shot, as will Suarez and a couple of other pitchers. Hope D-Rod can get back on track.
Kratz has the highest batting average in New York Yankees history! (2 for 2….1.000)
This team is looking as appealing as a month old ham sandwich.
Smells more like month old egg salad to me.
Pudge jr. is gone!!??
Darn…..
D-Rod didnt lose because of an error. He gave up like 9 hits & 4 walks. So all the Reds runs were scored in 1 inning. If ur have baserunners on every inning, 1 of those innings ur gonna get rocked. Most pitchers can get out of 1 or 2 high stressed inning, but 3 or 4 stressed innings… 1 will get u. MLB hitters are too good. D-Rod gave Cincy baserunners multiple innings. Just a matter of time before 1 inning explodes
Glad to read MadBum putting Zaidi on notice by listing 8 teams he’s not interested in being traded to before July. And that he intends to control his future … whether July or after this season.
MadBum has been nothing but loyal to the Giants his whole career; including his team friendly contact.
MadBum needs to be a San Francisco Giants for life; not one of Zaidi’s pawns.
MadBum put his childhood team on that list. I don’t want to burst your bubble but I think he’s doing it for leverage more than anything else. I’m not saying he doesn’t thoroughly enjoy SF it’s just not hard to see other motivations behind his list that he was contractually permitted to have. Which I don’t believe does anything for the likelihood of him being traded. I think there’s an enormously high probability of that happening.
D-Rod is butt cheese
Hopefully, he can get things ironed out in Sacramento. With an older rotation I was hoping D-Rod would have a repeat of 2018. Other guys are going to get opportunities, someone needs to step up. Starting pitching has been horrendous over the past 15 days or so, with the exception of Bum