{"id":78583,"date":"2024-06-30T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=78583"},"modified":"2024-06-30T22:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T02:35:41","slug":"blue-jays-add-yerry-rodriguez-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/30\/blue-jays-add-yerry-rodriguez-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Add Depth to Bullpen in Trade with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired Dominican reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodriye01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yerry Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> from the Texas Rangers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/30\/corey-seager-evaluation-wrist-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Rangers<\/a> will receive righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=moller000jos&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Mollerus<\/a>. Both are minor-league bullpen pitchers, and the Rangers have allotted Mollerus to their high-A affiliate and Rodr\u00edguez to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/24\/addison-barger-promotion-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Triple-A Buffalo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlueJays<\/a> add some bullpen depth in a trade with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rangers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Rangers<\/a>:<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXF5YftCOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/IXF5YftCOg<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sIf4IwDvjF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sIf4IwDvjF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtraderumors\/status\/1807504592722121114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Blue Jays Add Yerry Rodr\u00edguez to Bullpen from Rangers<\/h2>\n<h3>Struggles With the Rangers<\/h3>\n<p>The Rangers DFA&#8217;d Rodr\u00edguez earlier this week. This acquisition also ends the 26-year-old&#8217;s nine-year tenure in the Rangers system. Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s major league career with the Rangers started in 2022 when he made his MLB debut. Unfortunately, his numbers over the last three seasons have been subpar. He was sporting a 7.11 ERA across about just over 30 innings of work for the Rangers. But his issues have carried over to this season, with a 6.88 ERA across 17 innings pitched. He&#8217;s had trouble with walks (11) that bear a similar total to his strikeouts (12). His walk rate has also been troublesome during his time in the minors. It has increased to 15.2 % this season with an ERA of 5.42 in 151 career minor-league innings.<\/p>\n<h3>What Rodriguez Brings to the Table<\/h3>\n<p>But looking at the brighter side of things with Rodr\u00edguez, he&#8217;s a bullpen pitcher who can throw with power. For his career in the minors, he has a strikeout rate of 28.16 %. But maybe a new environment for this youngster could do him better. If the Blue Jays can help him fix his control issues, he could be reshaped into a new and improved pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s work to be done, but the Blue Jays acquiring him appears promising. The fact that he is a bullpen pitcher with major-league experience is a plus, as the Toronto bullpen is in rough shape right now. From injuries to designating <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/toronto-blue-jays-designate-tim-mayza\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">long-tenured reliever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mayzati01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Mayza<\/a> for assignment, to other relievers struggling, Rodr\u00edguez is a viable option they can turn to whenever needed. Rodr\u00edguez also has experience as a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/new-york-mets-option-tylor-megill\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">starting pitcher<\/a> but has transitioned to the bullpen and has the most experience as a reliever. His other asset in the bullpen is that he can put in several innings of work, hence why he would provide depth to the Blue Jays bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired Dominican reliever Yerry Rodr\u00edguez from the Texas Rangers. The Rangers will receive righty Josh Mollerus. Both are minor-league bullpen pitchers, and the Rangers have allotted Mollerus to their high-A affiliate and Rodr\u00edguez to Triple-A Buffalo. The #BlueJays add some bullpen depth in a trade with the #Rangers:https:\/\/t.co\/IXF5YftCOg pic.twitter.com\/sIf4IwDvjF \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":78660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1071,35],"tags":[1621,259,4481],"class_list":["post-78583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bullpen","tag-texas-rangers","tag-yerry-rodriguez"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}