![]() “It’s certainly played out in the early season, to the point where he can work himself through an at-bat and make adjustments, maybe understand this guy’s going try to throw me a bunch of sliders because I’m a big right-handed power hitter. ![]() He wants to be great, and knows that all the knowledge that he can pick up from these older guys is really going to help him. “Knowing Julio and his personality, he’s very curious,” he said. Servais said J-Rod’s eagerness to learn is impressive. “I don’t want to surmise that’s likely to happen in 2021, but Julio is the kind of player that could easily move multiple levels in one season.” “There have been superstar players like Mike Trout, some of the great players of all time, who have made their way to the big leagues at a young age, and I won’t count that as impossible for Julio. Still, the kid’s on a rocket to the bigs. And he didn’t hit well in winter ball against experienced pitching. Signed at 17, Rodriguez has lost developmental time to a broken wrist bone as well as the 2020 shutdown. ![]() Again, there are a lot of young players that are off to a great start. “So, I’m sure at some point here in the near future, there will be the opportunity for him to move up when the time is right. “He’s tearing it up, which doesn’t surprise me at all,” manager Scott Servais said Sunday. If the DR advances to Japan, Rodriguez’s timetable for promotion might be delayed, although it’s already hard to say he should not move up to AA Arkansas right now. He will play for the Dominican Republic in its qualifier tournament May 31 in Florida for the Summer Games in Tokyo in July. Rodriguez also has a shot to be an Olympian. Haniger has come back to play a superlative right field while hitting. The scenarios have developed because, ahead of Class A Everett’s game in Spokane Wednesday, Rodriguez had homered in four of the past five of the AquaSox’s first 13 games, and was hitting. 5 in baseball according to MLB Pipeline, a full year in the minors, then start his service time clock in ’22 at 21. They are the coin of the modern realm.įinish the season with the wounded rotation and a lesser outfield, and give Rodriguez, the club’s No. If Haniger stays and remains healthy, along with CF Kyle Lewis and LF Jarred Kelenic, Rodriguez’s only spot in a relevant September would be DH.įar-ball is to trade Haniger, among MLB’s home run leaders with 12 entering Wednesday, at his apex value, for a quality, hard-throwing prospect who projects as a No. Near-ball is to keep the proven Haniger, seek competitive relevance in September and patience with Rodriguez as he moves up from Class A to AA to AAA. ![]() With 12 players on the injured list, there really is only one move. But to abandon any part now is to make a bad situation worse. How many more we are asked to indulge isn’t clear. 199 heading into Wednesday’s game with the Detroit Tigers, who suddenly have gone all Koufax and Drysdale on the Seattles, options are few for a fix.Įven if there were competent, mid-career position players available in trade - unlikely since nearly all of MLB is in a similar offensive crisis - there is little point in having them take away developmental time from young players, especially after the lost minor league season of 2020. The question is relevant because, as the Mariners’ batting average slipped below the Mendoza Line as a team at. The question for general manager Jerry Dipoto: How quickly does he want to attempt to close the gap, via the July 30 trade deadline? OF Mitch Haniger has come back from multiple injuries to near All-Star form, and OF Julio Rodriguez may rip up what’s left of minor league baseball. Alan Chitlik, Sportspress NorthwestĪs they pass the seasonal quarter-pole being no-hit for the second time in two weeks, here’s a couple of positive developments regarding the Mariners’ offense. OF Julio Rodriguez, here at the Mariners summer camp in 2020, is making an early case for promotion.
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