BIB on the Go: The Story Of Former Third Overall Pick Brendan Rodgers
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What was Brendan Rodgers' journey after being drafted third overall?
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Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring. Here's your host, Rob Radford. So the first thing is, how did this come about? Why the Red Sox? and, you know, this sort of offseason?
Yeah, it was really one of the first serious kind of offers, you know, with kind of how the season went last year and then even the previous year being non-tendered. We had a feeling, you know, it would most likely be a non-roster invite, you know, with a chance to make the team. So it just felt like a good opportunity, you know, possibly getting back to playing with Story. You know, I got to play with Story for a couple years in the big leagues with the Rockies and,
Why did Brendan choose to join the Red Sox this season?
We were obviously talking, and he said there's a great group of guys, a lot of young talent. And I feel like it was just probably one of the best opportunities for me.
So when he, I don't know if it was more recruiting or more like you asking questions?
It was not recruiting. It was kind of me reaching out, just kind of letting him know that, you know, the Red Sox were interested and that, you know, that it could be, you know, a good opportunity for me. And, yeah, you know, we've tried to keep in contact as much as possible over the, you know, when we see each other, when we play and stuff. And, you know, our wives are pretty close too. So, yeah, it was a good opportunity.
So when you look at last year, how that went for you, what was your perspective of how you did, how things were, the evolution of you?
Yeah, no, I feel like I learned a lot. Houston was kind of about how my body moves and how my swing plays and maybe some things I needed to work on at the plate. It just kind of felt like I was almost trying to play with things and tweak things, you know, throughout, especially in spring training, but even in the season when, you know, you're not playing every day. It just felt like those days that I wasn't playing that, like, the work, you know, increased and, you know, the intent increased and a lot of machine BP, a lot of work in the cage, just trying to figure out, what felt best for me, you know, setup wise and stance wise. And I think we accomplished a lot. And then the soft season, I kind of just trying to nitpick a couple of things and feel what felt most comfortable for me.
And, you know, I feel like I'm on a good track. I actually have a meeting here in a minute about, you know, some good things. that came about last year and then even in the previous years that I had some success with with Colorado.
I don't want to give away secrets but what was like was it drivelines type stuff?
Yeah yeah a lot of you know mat speed and you know where I'm making contact with the ball and like how to properly you know release and turn the barrel and I just with Colorado I was my hands were kind of going first and I was really never getting to, I was, my contact point was kind of out front, but my barrel was just never releasing through the zone. It was like a lot of kind of lazy filleted balls, kind of the right, right center. And, you know, I kind of wanted to get back to driving the ball, you know, because I know I, you know, I've, pretty good bat speed and you know that's something I take pride in I just want to obviously make a little bit more contact.
Did you see the bat I mean so like you said you want to make more contact but did you see the bat speed tick up?
Yeah it definitely went up it was it was almost a little too fast that you know to where I was in and out of the zone pretty quick and kind of getting exposed on you know sliders away and two seamers in so I think Learning that and, you know, learning a bunch with Houston, trying to take a step back, you know, maybe tone it down a little bit to where I have a little bit more control and I'm staying within myself throughout, you know, at bats.
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