Fall-Winter Leagues

One new addition: Vazquez added a leg kick into his set-up, something that Rodriguez isn’t particularly thrilled about, but the Red Sox trying to work with him while he figures out how to use the leg kick without letting it affect his ability to make contact.

“That’s going to take time,” Rodriguez said. “Even guys that use the leg kick for long, long time, they struggle because it’s a timing thing and you get too high, too low, too out front. Sometimes he’s lazy. So to get the timing to be consistent is going to take time, at-bats, to know pitchers, how they’re going to pitch to him. That’s a timing thing.

“For me, the leg kick doesn’t do anything. I think it alters the timing. The leg kick is something you add and sometimes you add it for power. When you add it for power, now the pitcher has the advantage because they’re going to add and subtract to get you going in the right direction. For some people it’s a good thing, for other people it’s not a good thing.”