This is the area where Alonso, with his impeccable power and his incredible clutch performances (remember his two Home Run Derby wins ... s young stars like Julio Rodriguez and Jarred Kelenic.

Yes, a little run support would go a long way ... There are reasons to believe Julio Rodriguez can still be a superstar. Namely, a couple of numbers. Rodriguez’s average exit velocity (91.7 ...

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 28: Julio Rodriguez #44 of the Seattle Mariners celebrates his solo home run with the trident prop during ... by taking a player’s slugging percentage minus his batting ...

Entering just his third big league season, Julio Rodríguez is already a top-two center ... He was the only player to be in the 90th percentile or better in batting, baserunning and fielding run value ...

But it was the Mariners catcher, not Yordan Alvarez or Corey Seager or Mike Trout or Julio Rodríguez, who led the division ... But if anyone can go from "batting below the Mendoza Line" to "star of ...

"Right now, at the moment, I don't think I'm gonna go," Hernández said. "But I don't know if I'll change my mind. If I'm going to do it, I want to be in the All-Star Game. I don' ...

Julio Rodriguez had ... in a big way in 2025. Rodriguez is coming off a year in which he battled a slow start and a serious ankle injury en route to a .268 batting average with 20 homers and ...

Speaking this week on a podcast in the Dominican Republic, Seattle Mariners star Julio Rodriguez gave big praise ... time Silver Slugger and a two-time batting champion. He's a member of the ...

and a send-everyone-home closer in Andrés Muñoz. But consider the sentences above to be a throat-clearing exercise for the real Cooperstown candidate: Julio Rodriguez. Does he have it in him?

Rodriguez and Polanco will both need to have better seasons in 2025 if the M's want to hit their true ceiling. Rodriguez is coming off a season in which he hit .273 with 20 homers and 68 RBI.