finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2006 left new york city 2005 october 1 .298 7 43 outfielder st. louis cardinals batting average home runs runs batted in july 18 20 january 1978 john rodriguez -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 st. louis cardinals john rodríguez left
john rodriguez -lrb- baseball -rrb-

john joseph rodriguez -lrb- born january 20 , 1978 in new york city , is a retired major league baseball player .
he played in the major leagues for the st. louis cardinals from 2005-2006 .
rodriguez attended brandeis high school .
he signed as an undrafted free agent by the yankees in 1996 .
rodriguez played in the yankees minor league system for eight seasons before signing with the cleveland indians in 2005 .
he was traded to the st. louis cardinals later that year and forced a major league call-up to replace the injured reggie sanders by hitting .342 with 17 home runs in 34 games with triple-a the memphis redbirds .
he performed well enough that the cardinals signed him to a one-year contract following the season .
on july 20 , 2005 , rodriguez hit his first career home run off ben sheets of the milwaukee brewers .
rodriguez got more playing time for the cardinals -lrb- 183 at-bats , 34 more than the year before -rrb- and was on the postseason roster , winning a world series ring when the cardinals won the 2006 world series .
on november 30 , , the cardinals designated rodriguez for assignment , removing him from the 40-man roster to make room for newly acquired shortstop , césar izturis .
shortly thereafter the team released him .
rodriguez signed a minor league contract with the tampa bay rays on january 4 , , but did not make the major league team out of spring training .
on june 2 , 2008 , rodriguez was released .
on june 8 , rodriguez signed a minor league contract with the new york mets and was assigned to triple-a new orleans .
on january 6 , , rodriguez signed a minor league contract with the new york yankees .
after playing the entire season with the scranton/wilkes barre yankees , he became a free agent .
on may 7 , 2010 signed with the long island ducks .
on march 2 , 2011 , he signed a contract with the long island ducks .
in may 2012 , signed to play for the wichita wingnuts in the american association .
john is the head of baseball operations and the head hitting instructor at the yorkville baseball academy where he preaches the art of hand path to his students .
