ARLINGTON, Texas — One of the best catchers in the majors may be heading for a different part of the baseball diamond — some day in the near future.
The Texas Rangers’ Ivan Rodriguez will start learning a new position during the off season, team officials told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Monday’s editions.
Rodriguez, 28, plans to spend a week at Bucky Dent’s Baseball School in Florida to begin the learning process, according to paper, which may focus on teaching Rodriguez to play second base.
Rangers manager Johnny Oates said the offseason tutoring is primarily aimed at finding a position where the 1999 American League Most Valuable Player is least likely to be injured.
Rodriguez said he’s not planning a position switch any time soon, but did say, “It will be good to start working a new position.”
Dent’s school is in Boca Raton, Fla., and Rodriguez lives south of there, in Miami.