{"id":566857,"date":"2026-02-11T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:43:29","slug":"l-a-gets-promising-grayson-rodriguez-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566857\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. gets promising Grayson Rodriguez update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/baltimore-orioles\/orioles-news-baltimore-land-angels-taylor-ward-grayson-rodriguez-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels made a big trade<\/a> during the offseason by sending outfielder Taylor Ward to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/grayson-rodriguez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>. However, Rodriguez is attempting to bounce back from an injury that had him miss the entire 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2026 campaign right around the corner, the Angels got some good news regarding Rodriguez&#8217;s health. Reports indicate that the 26-year-old potential ace <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Buster_ESPN\/status\/2021659229090984030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">threw a bullpen session<\/a> in training camp on Wednesday, according to Buster Olney of ESPN. Rodriguez&#8217;s elbow injury recovery is seemingly going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrayson Rodriguez threw a bullpen session in Angels&#8217; camp today, and by all accounts, looks good and feels good, after missing last season. The Angels have four years of team control with the former first-round pick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-angels\/angels-news-grayson-rodriguez-hopeful-recent-elbow-procedure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels are hopeful for Rodriguez<\/a> to be ready by the start of the 2026 season. However, it likely depends on how he progresses through spring training. The upcoming campaign will be Rodriguez&#8217;s third year in MLB, and his first playing in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>His first two years with the Orioles were a bit rocky, which is usually expected for prospect pitchers. However, he showed a jump in production in 2024 in comparison to his rookie season in 2023. When Grayson Rodriguez takes the mound with the Angels, he&#8217;ll begin the 2026 season with a career 4.11 ERA and 1.291 WHIP. He&#8217;s also thrown 259 strikeouts and owns a 71.4% winning percentage in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Once officially healthy, Rodriguez is expected to play in the Angels&#8217; starting rotation. L.A. could utilize a six-man rotation this season, with Grayson Rodriguez, Yusei Kikuchi, Jose Soriano, Reid Detmers, Caden Dana, and Alex Manoah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Angels made a big trade during the offseason by sending outfielder Taylor Ward to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,582,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,3410],"class_list":{"0":"post-566857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116053947805445477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}