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Francisco Rodríguez (Mexican pitcher)

Mexican baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ3081926 ↗
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Francisco Rodríguez Murillo (born February 26, 1983) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2010 to 2011.

Career

Pericos de Puebla

Rodríguez began his career in the Mexican League in 2005 with the Pericos de Puebla. In 33 appearances for Puebla, Rodríguez logged a 4-4 record and 5.61 ERA with 36 strikeouts in 85.0 innings of work.

Los Angeles Angels

On December 26, 2005, Rodríguez signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In 2006, he won the California League Pitcher of the Week honors while pitching for the High-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. On the year, he logged a 5-13 record and 5.47 ERA in 26 appearances. For the 2007 season, Rodríguez returned to Rancho Cucamonga and posted a 4-8 record and 5.96 ERA in 39 games with the team. The next year, Rodriguez played in Double-A with the Arkansas Travelers, pitching to a 5-5 record and 3.82 ERA with 69 strikeouts in 75+1⁄3 innings pitched. In 2009, he played for the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees, recording a 5-4 record and 3.96 ERA with 60 strikeouts in 44 appearances.

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“Francisco Rodríguez (Mexican pitcher)” enters the record as mexican baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Francisco, Rodríguez and Mexican can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2010, 2011, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-02-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Francisco, Rodríguez and Mexican.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3081926. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2010, 2011 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francisco Rodríguez (Mexican pitcher)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.