| Year | Team | W | L | ERA | GS | IP | K | BB | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | BAL | 7 | 4 | 3.45 | 16 | 88.1 | 96 | 31 | 1.07 |
| 2024 | BAL | 9 | 10 | 4.17 | 27 | 149.2 | 153 | 50 | 1.25 |
| 2025 | BAL/LAA | 2 | 3 | 4.44 | 10 | 56.0 | 51 | 24 | 1.41 |
| 2026 ST | LAA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
96 mph Is Back. The Rotation Spot Is His.
Grayson Rodriguez is 26 years old with a 3.86 career ERA across 238 innings when healthy. The Angels acquired him as a calculated bet on talent — a pitcher who, at his best, has looked like a legitimate top-of-rotation arm. He missed all of 2025 with elbow and lat issues that eventually required bone spur removal surgery in August. By every account coming out of Tempe, the surgery fixed the thing it was supposed to fix.
His first spring outing was messy in the way first spring outings are — 1.2 innings, one run, three walks, only 23 of 40 pitches for strikes. That is not the news. The news is that his fastball averaged 96 mph, which matches what he was throwing in 2024 before the injury ended his season. A pitcher who comes back from elbow surgery throwing the same velocity he left with is not a given. It is a meaningful data point. Suzuki said the rotation spot is his to lose.
The workload management needs to be disciplined. This is a pitcher who has averaged about 14 starts per year across his career and hasn't thrown a competitive inning since July 2024. There will be a temptation to push him in September if the Angels are in a race. That temptation should be resisted. The goal is 20 healthy starts that set up 2027 and beyond — four years of team control on an arm with genuine frontline upside is worth protecting.
Everything so far is pointing in the right direction. That is more than most people expected when the trade was announced.