“I try to stay away from reading all of the social media stuff. It’s hard though when my mom sometimes reads it off to me or sends it to me or talks to me about it,” Rodgers smiled. “I’m like, ‘Let’s not talk about this, alright? Let’s just let it happen.’ I just try to not put too much pressure on myself and try to take it easy and do my thing.”
Brendan Rodgers confesses that that wasn’t the case last season when his promotion from Double-A Hartford to Triple-A Albuquerque had Colorado Rockies fans seemingly counting the days until he made the jump to the Major League level.