It’s been seven starts and since April 11 that Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez last completed a quality start.
It’s to the point that before a dicey 8-7 win against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday, the D-backs purposefully lined up stretched-out reliever Ryne Nelson to be ready in case Rodriguez struggled again, CEO and president Derrick Hall told Arizona Sports’ Bickley & Marotta.
“This is Captain Obvious … Just something is not right with him,” Hall said of Rodriguez’s trend on Thursday. “I don’t think it’s necessarily delivery, arm angle. I’m not sure. I’m not the pitching expert, pitching coach, but something is not right. We’ve got to figure that out first.
“It’s nice having an option to make sure that we have the backup yesterday with Ryne, and that was the plan.”
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Rodriguez gave up four earned runs in 4.0 innings (76 pitches), striking out four and walking three before Nelson entered Wednesday.
It was a small improvement for the starter over the six earned runs and eight total allowed through 2.2 innings in his prior start, a 14-11 loss to the Dodgers on Friday.
The spotlight continues to shine on the lefty, though, after he missed most of his first year with Arizona in 2024 due to injury. Since returning toward the end of the year, he has yet to look like the pitcher the D-backs signed to a four-year, $80 million deal two offseasons ago.
With health at least on his side in 2025, command is Rodriguez’s general issue.
His fastball has failed him this year. Per Sports Info Solutions’ pitch value statistic, it rates at a -4.9, the second time in his career it’s been a negative (-0.2 last season). In 2023 with the Detroit Tigers, that pitch value was a 7.0.
Rodriguez is getting behind in counts and has a career-low 55.9% strike rate on his first pitches, nearly 6% below his career average.
Is the team considering what to do with his rotation spot? And does his status as well-paid and the only lefty in the rotation make him harder to demote if that’s the case?
“We’ve never made a decision based off how much someone gets paid, especially in the rotation,” Hall said.
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