It's not like Julio Rodríguez needed to rush to pad his legend. After winning AL Rookie of the Year in 2022 with a 28-homer, 25-steal tour de force and leading the Seattle Mariners to their first postseason berth in more than two decades, his face is probably the second-most common image in the Pacific Northwest, behind the Seattle Space Needle.
. If you were wondering, he made a total of five outs in that run.
The Mariners won six straight from Tuesday on, including a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros. In doing so, they surpassed the Toronto Blue Jays for the third wild-card spot and pulled within a half-game of the Astros for the second one. What’s more, all of a sudden, it’s a three-team race in the AL West, as Seattle sits only three games back of the Texas Rangers.. Their chances of winning the AL West tripled.
Having labored through a 9-15 June, the Mariners looked for all the world like a half-team — a club with a phenomenal pitching staff and no lineup to score behind it. On June 30, their offense ranked 28th in batting average, 24th in on-base percentage, 29th in strikeout percentage and 20th in overall wRC+. They managed to bop some homers and did very little else. and have leaned into the running game. On top of a .346 average and eight homers, Rodríguez has nabbed 15 bases in that span.
What looked like a sophomore slump for Rodríguez now looks eerily similar to his bombastic 2022 arrival. He now has recorded precisely 560 plate appearances in 2023, mirroring his 2022 total. Last season, he slashed .284/.345/.509, with underlying batted-ball metrics saying he perhaps overperformed by a smidge. This season’s line is up to .278/.336/.462, with those same metrics viewing him as a touch unlucky.His 93.2 mph average exit velocity is up from last season, as is his 52.
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