TEMPE -- Sun Devil for Life Brady Rodgers became the 107th Sun Devil to play Major League Baseball after making his debut for the Houston Astros this past Saturday.
Rodgers has spent his entire five-year career in the Astros organization after being selected by Houston in the third round of the 2012 Draft out of Arizona State. In 2016, Rodgers went 12-4 with a 2.86 ERA (132.0 IP, 42 ER) with 116 strikeouts to 23 walks for Triple-A affiliate Fresno. Rodgers was voted the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of The Year this season in his second year with the Grizzles. He became the first Fresno pitcher to win this award in the 13 years of the organization's history.
In 110 professional games (92 starts), Rodgers is 45-33 with a 4.07 ERA (556.2 IP, 252 ER) with 455 strikeouts against only 101 walks.
The 107 players Arizona State has sent to the Major Leagues are the most of any school since 1959, the year baseball's modern era started at ASU, and trails only USC, which leads all schools with 111. ASU's major leaguers all debuted since 1963, while USC (1927) has a much longer history of sending players to the MLB. USC's list also includes five freshman-only players.
ASU has had at least one major league player on their varsity roster from 1961 through 2012, which is the longest current streak in the nation. Thirty-two ASU baseball players have made their MLB debuts since 2002, and Rodgers is the sixth Sun Devil from the 2010 roster to make it to the MLB. The 1975 team holds the school record with 14.
Sun Devil Baseball has a long and storied tradition of producing MLB players across the past six-plus decades, including an NCAA-best 409 Sun Devils who have been drafted, a combined 24 World Series appearances and 57 All-Star Games, nine MVP awards, four Rookie of the Year's, 16 Gold Gloves, 17 Silver Sluggers and two World Series MVP honors.
Rodgers will join the list of Sun Devils who have played in the MLB includes Floyd Bannister, Barry Bonds, Bob Horner, Reggie Jackson, Paul Lo Duca, Oddibe McDowell, Dustin Pedroia and Don Wakamatsu. Pete Lovrich was ASU's first Major Leaguer in 1963.
Rodgers, a 2009 graduate of Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg, Texas came to Arizona State for his freshman season after being drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 39th round of the 2009 MLB Draft which he deferred.
Rodgers has spent his entire five-year career in the Astros organization after being selected by Houston in the third round of the 2012 Draft out of Arizona State. In 2016, Rodgers went 12-4 with a 2.86 ERA (132.0 IP, 42 ER) with 116 strikeouts to 23 walks for Triple-A affiliate Fresno. Rodgers was voted the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of The Year this season in his second year with the Grizzles. He became the first Fresno pitcher to win this award in the 13 years of the organization's history.
In 110 professional games (92 starts), Rodgers is 45-33 with a 4.07 ERA (556.2 IP, 252 ER) with 455 strikeouts against only 101 walks.
The 107 players Arizona State has sent to the Major Leagues are the most of any school since 1959, the year baseball's modern era started at ASU, and trails only USC, which leads all schools with 111. ASU's major leaguers all debuted since 1963, while USC (1927) has a much longer history of sending players to the MLB. USC's list also includes five freshman-only players.
ASU has had at least one major league player on their varsity roster from 1961 through 2012, which is the longest current streak in the nation. Thirty-two ASU baseball players have made their MLB debuts since 2002, and Rodgers is the sixth Sun Devil from the 2010 roster to make it to the MLB. The 1975 team holds the school record with 14.
Sun Devil Baseball has a long and storied tradition of producing MLB players across the past six-plus decades, including an NCAA-best 409 Sun Devils who have been drafted, a combined 24 World Series appearances and 57 All-Star Games, nine MVP awards, four Rookie of the Year's, 16 Gold Gloves, 17 Silver Sluggers and two World Series MVP honors.
Rodgers will join the list of Sun Devils who have played in the MLB includes Floyd Bannister, Barry Bonds, Bob Horner, Reggie Jackson, Paul Lo Duca, Oddibe McDowell, Dustin Pedroia and Don Wakamatsu. Pete Lovrich was ASU's first Major Leaguer in 1963.
Rodgers, a 2009 graduate of Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg, Texas came to Arizona State for his freshman season after being drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 39th round of the 2009 MLB Draft which he deferred.