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Eduardo Rodriguez
B/T L/L · 6' 2" · 231 lb · born Valencia, Venezuela · age 33 · played P 27 · MLB debut 2015-05-28
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-28): 3 G · 18.2 IP · 0.96 ERA · 18 SO · 0.86 WHIP
664 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
100 career wins — Wed, Jun 17 · day game vs. Los Angeles Angels The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
FlagshipEduardo Rodriguez #580 · 2024 Topps Heritage Mini · 21 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%
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The rookieEduardo Rodriguez #ER · 2015 Bowman's Best of Autographs · 64 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Rodriguez sits on the ledger board at 2.5 WAR, his 2.61 ERA ranking eighth across 155 innings this season. Born in Valencia, Venezuela, he debuted in May 2015 and has 1,407 career strikeouts over 267 games. At 33, he is the kind of arm who does not need the ballpark to save him. The last two weeks brought nine strikeouts in two starts, and the season's 110 are still climbing.
We wrote about Rodriguez here — The Overnight: 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 9 K, 3 BB (August 26, 2026) · 8.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 K, BB (July 29, 2026) · 6.2 IP, 0 ER, 5 K, 3 BB (June 23, 2026) · 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 4 K, BB (May 21, 2026)
Current signals
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $21.00M
- Tax hit
- $20.00M
- Service time
- 10 yr 70 d
- Guaranteed
- $80M
The deal 4 years $80M (2024–2027) — $20.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 4 y/$80M (24-27)+28 v opt · agent Mato Spts · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $19.0M | Option | Option |
| Tax hit | $20.0M | Option | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $20.0M
- Guaranteed
- $80.0M
- Term
- 4 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $21.0M | $19.0M | $17.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
runs allowed per nine, in the window we called — +1.2 from a baseline of 2.3 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : +0.8975 against the +1.2 we called.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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The Bureau on Eduardo Rodriguez
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
-2.9 net runs over 25 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 21 | 121.2 | 10–6 | 0 | 3.85 | 98 | 1.29 |
| 2016 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 20 | 107.0 | 3–7 | 0 | 4.71 | 100 | 1.30 |
| 2017 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 25 | 137.1 | 6–7 | 0 | 4.19 | 150 | 1.28 |
| 2018 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 27 | 129.2 | 13–5 | 0 | 3.82 | 146 | 1.26 |
| 2019 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 34 | 203.1 | 19–6 | 0 | 3.81 | 213 | 1.33 |
| 2021 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 32 | 157.2 | 13–8 | 0 | 4.74 | 185 | 1.39 |
| 2022 | Detroit Tigers | MLB | 17 | 91.0 | 5–5 | 0 | 4.05 | 72 | 1.33 |
| 2023 | Detroit Tigers | MLB | 26 | 152.2 | 13–9 | 0 | 3.30 | 143 | 1.15 |
| 2024 | Arizona Diamondbacks | MLB | 10 | 50.0 | 3–4 | 0 | 5.04 | 47 | 1.50 |
| 2025 | Arizona Diamondbacks | MLB | 29 | 154.1 | 9–9 | 0 | 5.02 | 143 | 1.54 |
| 2026 | Arizona Diamondbacks | MLB | 27 | 162.0 | 14–4 | 0 | 2.50 | 119 | 1.19 |
| MLB CAREER | 268 | 1466.2 | 108–70 | 0 | 4.00 | 1416 | 1.31 | ||
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