Episode 17 - Talking baseball with Stanford Coach: Steve Rodriguez The Brushback Baseball Podcast

Steve Rodriguez has quite the baseball resume... See below from Stanford Baseball's bio on Stevie:

"Steve Rodriguez enters the 2020 season in his first season as a Stanford assistant coach after spending the previous three seasons with UCLA as the Director of Baseball Operations. A student-athlete for the Bruins from 2009-11, Rodriguez played six seasons as a member of the Arizona Diamondback and Atlanta Braves organizations (2011-16).

A native of Lomita, California, Rodriguez played 147 games at catcher with UCLA, making 137 starts across three seasons. He finished with a career .215 batting average with 10 home runs and 64 RBI while serving as catcher for future first-round picks in the Major League Baseball draft Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer. During his three seasons, the Bruins pitching staff owned a 3.33 earned-run average with over 1,700 strikeouts. In 2010, Rodriguez was a member of the United States Collegiate National team.

Rodriguez was selected in the 15th round of the of the 2011 MLB amateur draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks and made it to as high as Double-A with both the Diamondbacks and the Braves. He hit .221 in his professional career with four home runs and 79 RBIs. Rodriguez had one of his best seasons in 2014 when he was promoted to Double-A Mobile and hit .267 with a .352 slugging percentage and scored 11 runs in 60 games for the BayBears."

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