With Isaac, the key has been a lower strikeout rate and higher walk rate, cutting his strikeout rate down from a career-high 33.3% in 2024 to 28.2% so far between Double-A and Triple-A.<\/p>\n
As his strikeout rate has declined, his walk rate has soared from 13.3% in 2024 to 18.8% in 2026, currently in the 94th percentile in MiLB in walk rate. It rivaled what he did across a 41-game sample size in 2025, walking at a 19.4% clip.<\/p>\n
His power has also returned, as he\u2019s hit a career-high 27 home runs across both levels, showcasing a better hit tool and harder contact, sitting in the 99th percentile in exit velocity (97.7 mph), 97th percentile in barrel percentage (19%), and 98th percentile in hard-hit percentage at 71.4%.<\/p>\n
Currently, Isaac is hitting .294\/.442\/.618 across 10 games with Durham, nearly an identical OPS (1.060) to what Bodine has put up in nine games with the Bulls (1.062).<\/p>\n
Continuous Improvements From Bodine<\/p>\n
Starting the 30th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft in Single-A Charleston to begin the season was likely a mistake from the Rays front office, but he\u2019s moved up through the organization at lightning speed, not spending more than 37 games at any stop from Single-A to Double-A before his promotion to Durham on August 25.<\/p>\n
He has been the poster child of consistency and productivity this year during his rapid rise to Triple-A, with his average at one stop not dipping below .316 and his OPS not dipping below .844, both in Montgomery.<\/p>\n
Bodine\u2019s bat-to-ball skills are as good as any player in MiLB, let alone any catcher in MiLB, while being one of the most aggressive hitters at the same time.<\/p>\n
His swing percentage overall sits at 57.4%, currently in the 95th percentile in the minors, but his swing percentage on pitches in the zone and contact rate are even higher, with a Z-swing rate of 69.2% and a Z-contact rate of 91.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Isaac, the key has been a lower strikeout rate and higher walk rate, cutting his strikeout rate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-801635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117248018598031924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801635","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=801635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}