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Joshua Rodrigues
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M.Ed. Instructional Technology | Free Agent | Formerly Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles

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"Rickey’s model didn’t just survive it became the default. In a profession obsessed with optimizing player development, it’s the one area where the underlying model hasn’t changed since the 1950s."

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Baseball’s Stuck in the Rickey Era: How a 1950s Teaching Model Still Runs the Modern Game
In the 1950s, Branch Rickey transformed baseball with the modern farm system, a structured pipeline that let teams grow talent instead of buying it.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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"Rickey’s model didn’t just survive it became the default. In a profession obsessed with optimizing player development, it’s the one area where the underlying model hasn’t changed since the 1950s."

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Baseball’s Stuck in the Rickey Era: How a 1950s Teaching Model Still Runs the Modern Game
In the 1950s, Branch Rickey transformed baseball with the modern farm system, a structured pipeline that let teams grow talent instead of buying it.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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"But even Rickey for all his innovation, missed the final step. He was famous for long lectures that buried players in information. And that’s the lesson: designing the framework is one thing; delivering it in a way players can actually absorb is another"

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The System Doesn't Work Unless Every Piece Connects: Completing Rickey's Design
Players not fully understanding isn’t new.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Life as a remote worker-
Framework --> Meeting --> Teaching Practice
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"But even Rickey for all his innovation, missed the final step. He was famous for long lectures that buried players in information. And that’s the lesson: designing the framework is one thing; delivering it in a way players can actually absorb is another"

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The System Doesn't Work Unless Every Piece Connects: Completing Rickey's Design
Players not fully understanding isn’t new.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"But the truth is much simpler players understood the game because they talked about it constantly. If you want that same level of understanding now, you have to build an environment where those conversations actually happen."

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Questions Over Answers: Coaching for Understanding
A lot of people still treat baseball strategy like something you spoon feed in scheduled doses team meetings, classroom sessions, neatly packaged lessons.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"But the truth is much simpler players understood the game because they talked about it constantly. If you want that same level of understanding now, you have to build an environment where those conversations actually happen."

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Questions Over Answers: Coaching for Understanding
A lot of people still treat baseball strategy like something you spoon feed in scheduled doses team meetings, classroom sessions, neatly packaged lessons.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"Instead of treating every moment as its own instruction manual, they start weighing likelihoods, consequences, leverage, and timing."

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The Framework Mindset: Seeing Baseball Beyond Single Plays
When we talk about teaching players how the game is played, we almost always default to breaking things down into isolated snapshots one play, one moment, one situation.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Josh’s inquisitive mind is quickly becoming my favorite
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"Instead of treating every moment as its own instruction manual, they start weighing likelihoods, consequences, leverage, and timing."

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The Framework Mindset: Seeing Baseball Beyond Single Plays
When we talk about teaching players how the game is played, we almost always default to breaking things down into isolated snapshots one play, one moment, one situation.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Great read. Provides some guidance and perspective to the struggles I've felt as an instinctual and intellectual player trying to teach situational play to very young players.
jrodrigues39.bsky.social Joshua Rodrigues @jrodrigues39.bsky.social · 16d
"As much as we’d love to prepare them for every situation before they face it, that’s not how the game works. The only sustainable path is teaching them the patterns underneath the play."

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The Play Isn’t the Point: Navigating 1,512 Game States
In baseball, situational play is too important to treat like a checklist.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Reading this reminds me of Miguel Cabrera, who always had a reputation for doing "1000 IQ" fielding and base running plays
By Jason Beck May 4, 2014 KANSAS CITY - - Tigers manager Brad Ausmus struggles to put into words the move that Miguel Cabrera has now used twice to tag up and take an extra base on two strong-armed outfielders. "That's an instinctual play by a veteran player," Ausmus said before Sunday's series finale against the Royals. *I think he went with the deke, like, 'I'm going to pretend I'm running, but I'm not running, but then actually run." As awkward as it sounds, it has worked twice. And it got into the head of Gold Glove Award winner Alex Gordon on Saturday, two weeks after Cabrera fooled defensive human highlight reel Mike Trout. On Saturday, Cabrera's tag-up on Nick Castellanos' line drive to left was part-deke, part-read. The way the ball was hit, sending Gordon charging in to catch a sinking liner, did not suggest a chance for even a fast runner to go home. A fast runner, however, would've likely had Gordon's undivided attention. With Cabrera on third, Gordon said his first look was to Victor Martinez at second base. "I saw Victor off the bag at second, and I was going to try to double him up and get out of the inning right there," Gordon said. "I wanted to come up throwing, and at first, I didn't see anybody on second base so that's why I didn't throw." Gordon held the ball, but just the look at the fake was enough for Cabrera to decide to turn his move towards home into a mad dash to the plate. "My decision, it was because he faked the throw to second base and gave me a chance to react and try to score," Cabrera said.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"As much as we’d love to prepare them for every situation before they face it, that’s not how the game works. The only sustainable path is teaching them the patterns underneath the play."

open.substack.com/pub/jrod2003...
The Play Isn’t the Point: Navigating 1,512 Game States
In baseball, situational play is too important to treat like a checklist.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Hoy, @jrodrigues39.bsky.social confirma lo que ya sospechábamos: www.baseballprospectus.com/en-espanol/a... en @enespanol.baseballprospectus.com #Beisbol
El nuevo plano para octubre: usa a los mejores, no al bullpen | Baseball Prospectus
Oye: ¡los abridores están de regreso!
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November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"As much as we’d love to prepare them for every situation before they face it, that’s not how the game works. The only sustainable path is teaching them the patterns underneath the play."

open.substack.com/pub/jrod2003...
The Play Isn’t the Point: Navigating 1,512 Game States
In baseball, situational play is too important to treat like a checklist.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The New October Blueprint: Lean on Your Best, Not Your Bullpen
by Joshua Rodrigues (@jrodrigues39.bsky.social)
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The New October Blueprint: Lean on Your Best, Not Your Bullpen | Baseball Prospectus
Starters are back.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Going to be interesting to see Taylor Ward on a team where he doesn't need to put a sensor on his own bat
jrodrigues39.bsky.social Joshua Rodrigues @jrodrigues39.bsky.social · Apr 13
I'm pretty sure that Taylor Ward is using a Blast Sensor in games. The Technology is approved for MLB use. He has also been a reported avid user of the Tech in the past.

Only old report I've seen was Elly using it a few years ago in game.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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"Low swing tendencies dominate across nearly every count, forcing pitchers to labor and often producing favorable counts. Aggressive hitters shine in the extremes 0-2 or 3-2 otherwise, patience dictates success."

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Mapping Advantage: How Counts and Platoons Shape wOBA | Baseball Prospectus
Our identities are shaped in part by where we're located.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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With Blake Butera being introduced today, worth reposting this. Front Offices are looking for Managers who are able to partner with them instead of endlessly pushing back on them at every turn.

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The Modern Manager: Baseball’s Chief Developer
The role was once the ultimate authority within a club ruling the team, the clubhouse, and the field with an iron fist.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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From an MLB Job posting. It's real and happening
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is an area where Mike Rizzo's old school mentality was putting the Nats woefully behind and an illustration of how tough a challenge Toboni will have in getting the Nats organization to catch up. He'll be fixing minor league development while other teams race ahead on the pro side.
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"He’s been clear that the goal is to create environments where players aren’t just getting their reps, they’re actually getting better and getting better quicker."

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Marlins in Focus: How One Team Shows MLB’s Player Development Shift
Across baseball, that mindset is starting to take hold.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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"He’s been clear that the goal is to create environments where players aren’t just getting their reps, they’re actually getting better and getting better quicker."

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Marlins in Focus: How One Team Shows MLB’s Player Development Shift
Across baseball, that mindset is starting to take hold.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM