Bio
Yorman Rodriguez comes to Sioux City after having played first base and catching over the course of his 10 seasons of professional baseball. He was an international free agent signee by the Toronto Blue Jays organization in 2014 and would spend five seasons in the Toronto system reaching Low-A before being claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres on December 10, 2020. The native of Venezuela would spend three seasons in the San Diego farm system, reaching Triple-A El Paso on two separate occasions. He spent the winter of 2025-2026 playing for Aragua in Venezuela. In 2024, Rodriguez played in 45 games with Leon in the Mexican League, hitting .319 with five home runs and 21 RBI.
In 2023, Rodriguez spent his last season with the San Diego Padres organization, playing in 50 games between Triple-A El Paso and Double-A San Antonio. For the season he would slash a line of /257/.298/.396, hitting 5 homers with 34 RBI. In 2022 Rodriguez played a career high 122 games for Double-A San Antonio, clubbing 15 home runs and knocking in 83 runs finishing the season with a .279/.328/.422 slash line for the Missions. He would lead the team in long balls and RBI for the season, and his 25 doubles were good for second on the team. Rodriguez also finished fifth in the Texas League in RBI for the 2022 season.
Rodriguez made three stops in the Padres chain in 2021. He began the season at A-Level Fort Wayne in the Midwest League where he played 22 games, hitting .289 with a pair of home runs and 13 RBI. Rodriguez then made a mid-June move up to Double-A San Antonio, playing 14 games with a home run and an RBI before a July promotion to Triple-A El Paso. The Padres would send him back to Fort Wayne in early August before returning to El Paso later in the month. With El Paso, he hit .323 in 21 games with six home runs and 12 RBI. For the season, Rodriguez played in 68 games with nine home runs and 27 RBI, slashing a line of .294/.454.
After not playing in 2020 due to the world-wide pandemic, Rodriguez spent his last season in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, playing 22 games at A-level Lansing in the Midwest League and at low-A Vancouver in the Northwest League. In 62 games during the 2019 season, he hit a combined .360 with five home runs and 40 RBI. In 2018 he would play just five games at Rookie-Level Gulf Coast and another 45 games at Vancouver. Rodriguez would hit .267 in 45 games for Vancouver with one round trip and thirty RBI.
In 2017, Rodriguez once again split time with two teams in the Blue Jays farm system. He spent 57 games in the Rookie-level Appalachian League with Bluefield and just five games a step up the ladder with Vancouver. For the season he finished with a combined slash line of .333/.362/.414 in 62 games with three home runs and 36 RBI. Rodriguez made two rookie stops in 2016 for Toronto. He would play in 46 games in the Dominican Summer League, hitting .324 with a home run and 35 RBI, and he added another 21 games in the Gulf Coast League, hitting .296 with two home runs and five RBI.
Rodriguez made his professional debut in 2015 after inking with Toronto during the previous summer. He would play 61 games, hitting two long blasts with 45 RBI with the Blue Jays team in the DSL. Rodriguez finished the year slashing a line of .335/.413/.455. Rodriguez’s 45 RBI total was good for second on the club, and the 58 walks that he worked would lead the team. He bats and throws right and hails from Maracay, Venezuela.