Coaching Career
Following his playing career, Rodríguez served as an assistant coach at his alma mater from 2000 to 2003, and has been head coach since 2004 to present. He was hired as the sixteenth head coach in the history of the Pepperdine baseball program in June 2003, to become only the third former Pepperdine player head coach for the Waves in the program’s sixty-five-year history.
Taking over a young team in 2004, Rodríguez guided Pepperdine to the WCC Championship where the Waves swept conference rival Loyola Marymount University in the best-of-three WCC championship series.
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