His grade shows how good he has been, and at what.
Too few batters faced to grade
Manuel Rodríguez has faced 35 batters this season. A rate built on that few can swing a long way on a single result, so his rates get no grade and no league percentile yet.
A grade needs 40 batters faced. League medians and percentiles come from pitchers with at least 100 batters faced. The sections below show what actually happened, with no grade attached.
Arsenal
These cards show what he throws and what each pitch does.
Pitch mix & swing-and-miss
Bases vs average
Slider
47%
88.9 mph
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saved 0.8 per 1000.5 total
Sinker
37%
96.2 mph
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cost 9.8 per 1005.0 total
Four-Seam Fastball
not charted
16%
95.6 mph
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His four-seam fastball isn't in the charts below, because only 22 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.
▸How to read this chart
Each row is a pitch he throws at least 3% of the time, from pitch tracking in the regular season. The bar is how often he throws it, then its average velocity and its whiff rate, the share of swings that miss. More whiffs are better for a pitcher, while usage and velocity describe how he pitches. The Bases vs average bars score each pitch against a league-average pitch in the same count, and a bar to the left (saved) is better.
Mix by batter side
Slider
47% vs LHH
48% vs RHH
▸How to read this chart
Each row shows how often he throws a pitch to left-handed hitters (LHH) and right-handed hitters (RHH). A mix is a plan, so a higher or lower share is neither better nor worse.
Manuel Rodríguez's pitch movement, 2026
Pitch
Risein · vs Lg median
Breakin · vs Lg median
SliderSL
Rise 1.7 in
−0.1 vs Lg median
Break −2.9 in
+0.8 vs Lg median
SinkerSI
Rise 10.6 in
+2.3 vs Lg median
Break 15.0 in
−0.2 vs Lg median
Early season → nowLg medianNormal wobble around the dot
▸How to read this chart
Each dot is a pitch's current break in inches, averaged over his latest outings. Higher is more rise and further right is more arm-side break, and neither is better or worse. The faint trail runs from his early-season outings to the dot, and the soft halo shows how far normal noise can move it. League median is the small hollow ring, and a pitch marked * has none because too few pitchers throw it. The by-appearance chart below has the exact dates. More on the About page
By appearance
These charts follow his velocity, movement and mix from outing to outing.
These charts follow his velocity, movement and pitch mix one outing at a time, and each pitch keeps the same color in every chart. The velocity and movement charts also shade the middle of the league for scale. His four-seam fastball isn't in these charts, because only 22 of them were tracked with velocity and movement data this season.
Contact allowed
These cards show what hitters do when they make contact.
Batters go to the pull side off him most often, and that's also where they do the most damage.
Pull side and opposite field depend on which side each batter hits from, so this pools every hitter he faced.
Batted balls allowed
Every ball hit off Manuel Rodríguez this season is drawn where it landed.
Dot color is estimated bases (EB), what the contact was worth no matter what the defense did with it. Darker means more bases, so a dark hollow ring in the outfield is a crushed ball his defense ran down. Tap or hover a dot or a row to link the two, and use the ▶ links to watch a play on Baseball Savant.
Best games
These are his biggest outings this season.
Best games
These are his best outings this season, ranked by bases saved against a replacement arm.
