Eduardo Rodriguez finally had his long-anticipated breakout campaign last season which saw him finish sixth on the AL Cy Young Award ballot. Is there another level that the 26-year-old can reach to join the elite class of pitchers?
Pedro Martinez believes that Rodriguez has it in him to make the leap from the outskirts of Cy Young contention to bringing home the hardware.
“I’m talking about Cy Young, close to 300 strikeouts,” Martinez said, via the Boston Herald’s Steve Hewitt. “He has the stuff. Chris Sale’s always in the hunt.