It's been a weird season for Eduardo Rodriguez thus far who went 6.0 IP, 1 ER, 5 Hits, 2 BBs, 9 Ks against the Cubs last night. On one hand, he holds a ridiculous 11.96 K/9 and 14.9% whiff rate (whoa!) paired with a 2.70 ERA, but on the other is a 5.40 BB/9, 34.0% Hard Contact, 3.84 SIERA, 89.7% LOB Rate and .239 BABIP. It's really not what we expected in any way from the southpaw. Now, he's only had four starts, with his last three being the super good ones - 8, 7, 9 Ks respectively and just 3 ER total - though that came with 11 walks...not to mention that Eduardo is a flyball pitcher to the extreme right now (26.0% groundball rate!) and if he's not doing that with a ton of weak contact (under 16%) then I have to imagine that ERA is going to rise quite a bit, knock him out of games quicker and strikeout far fewer batters. Still, I'd be super happy to own him and would let this one ride as I'm sure you won't get enough for him on the trade market. His future schedule looks smooth as well and this could be one of the better wire adds you've made...or fall flat with that LOB rate and horrific walk numbers catching up to him. Should be a fun month.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
