He had a shockingly strong rookie campaign, but his sophomore season got off to a start that went from rocky to worse. He wasn’t hitting, he was sloppy and unreliable defensively, and then he was sitting.
And on May 11, he was optioned for the first time, shipped to AAA.
That was Rougned Odor, one year ago today.
Batting an anemic .144/.252/.233, Odor went down to Round Rock, took the demotion as a challenge rather than as a sentence, hit .352/.426/.639 over 30 games, and returned to Texas on June 15.
Odor hit .292/.334/.527 the rest of way for the Rangers, and then put up an .