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2006: Signed with the Boston Red Sox organization
on January 6...received a non-roster invite to major league spring
training on February 1...re-assigned to minor league camp on
March 13...hit .385 (5-13) with 2 doubles in 10 major league
spring training games...wore number 30 for the Pawtucket Red
Sox (AAA)...pitched for the first time in his minor league career
on April 12, a 4-3 loss to Rochester in 16 innings. Using a knuckleball,
he three 28 pitches (21 strikes) in two scoreless innings...got
his 800th career hit on June 6...released by the Paw Sox on June
13...signed with the Durham Bulls (AAA) on June 27...wore number
36 with Durham...got his 400th RBI on June 28...got his 3,000th
career at-bat on August 15...got his 200th career double on August
18...played his 900th career game on September 2...Hogs in the
Minors Player of the Week one time...a free agent after the season.
2005: Promoted from Brooklyn (A) to Norfolk on April
8...wore number 9 with Norfolk...sent down to Brooklyn on April
11...promoted to Norfolk on April 26...got his 700th career hit
on June 12...played his 800th career game on August 18...had
a season long hit streak of 11 games (13-42)...Hogs in the Minors
Player of the Week three times...a free agent after the season.
2004: Was 0-5 in 5 major league spring training games...wore
number 30 with the Norfolk Tides...Story: Tides'
Nye refuses to feel squeezed out at third base...played
his 600th minor league game on May 10...picked up his 300th career
RBI on June 15...Hogs in the Minors Player of the Week one time.
2003: Was transferred from Binghamton (AA) to Norfolk
(AAA) on January 7...wore number 30 for Binghamton...promoted
to Norfolk on May 15 and played his first AAA game that night...wore
number 47 with Norfolk...was sent back to Binghamton on May 17...News
Story: B-Mets'
Nye is having quietly productive year...on August 4 Rodney
was voted the Best Defensive Third Baseman in the Eastern League
by Baseball America...was voted team MVP by the B-Mets
players...named Most Popular Player by the B-Mets fans...named
the team MVP by the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin...News
Story: Patience
wears thin for B-Mets' Nye...finished with 41 doubles,
one shy of Jason Hardtke's single-season Binghamton franchise
record...ranks second to Chris Saunders on the B-Mets' all-time
list in games played, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles and RBI...Hogs
in the Minors Player of the Week three times...named Hognation.net
Minor
League Player of the Year...won the Sterling Award (team
MVP award given out by the Mets organization) on September 18...played
for the Magallanes Navigators of the Venezuelan Winter League
briefly.
2002: Wore number 10 with Binghamton...on the DL from
May 31 to June 11 with a broken finger.
2001: News Story: Nye
responds to emergency role by leading B-Mets to victory...News
Story: Attitude
Adjustment...News Story: Former
Hog hitting it off in minors...was placed on the DL on
8/23 with a right hamstring problem...Hogs in the Minors Player
of the Week two times.
2000: Played all 132 games in at third base...wore
number 35 with St. Lucie.
1999: Drafted in the seventh round (226 overall) by
the New York Mets...won 1999 Doubleday Award as Mets' MVP at
short-season Pittsfield (NY-P League).
College: Rodney was a second team All-SEC third
baseman at Arkansas in 1999...batted 269 times setting the single
season record at Arkansas in 1999... Rodney was a member of the
'98 and '99 All-SEC Tournament teams and the Tournament MVP in
'98...Holds the single game record at Arkansas for
doubles with four in 1998...attended the UofA in 1998 and 1999...also
attended the University of North Carolina before transferring
to the UofA...named to the Cape Cod league mid-season all-star
team while playing for Harwich during the summer of 1998.
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