When the Dodgers traded for shortstop Miguel Rojas on Wednesday, there was a lot of focus on his offense, which has mostly been mediocre in his career and was the worst it’s ever been in 2022.
Of course, Rojas spent the last half of the season battling a wrist injury, and it’s hard to know how much that affected his offense. Still, other than a huge 138 OPS+ in the shortened 2020 season, Rojas’s offense hasn’t been much to write home about.
But his defense. Oh, his defense. L.A. fans remember Rojas as the guy who saved Clayton Kershaw’s no-hitter in 2014, just 12 days after the infielder’s big-league debut, and that play wasn’t an anomaly.