Rodney Warren Boxberger (born August 22, 1957) is an American former baseball pitcher. He won the 1978 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a junior at the University of Southern California (USC).
Boxberger was drafted twice by two different major league teams. In the 1975 amateur draft, he was taken in the second round by the New York Mets. In 1978, he was taken in the first round, 11th overall, by the Houston Astros. He played six years professionally, never reaching the big leagues.
His first professional season was 1978. He split the season between the Daytona Beach Astros and Columbus Astros. He went 1âÂÂ2 with a 1.20 ERA in three games with Daytona Beach and 5âÂÂ5 with a 4.18 ERA in 11 games with Columbus. In 1979, Boxberger played with the Columbus Astros again, going 6âÂÂ7 with a 4.80 ERA in 21 games. For the third year in a row, Boxberger played with Columbus again in 1980, and for the third year in a row his stats dropped. He went 4âÂÂ13 with a 5.62 ERA in 23 games in 1980.
He wound up in the New York Yankees organization in 1981, playing for the Double-A Nashville Sounds. He went 4âÂÂ9 with a 4.54 ERA in 23 games that year. Boxberger played the final two years of his professional career in the California Angels organization. In 1982, he played for the Holyoke Millers, going 5âÂÂ9 with a 3.78 ERA. He played for the Nashua Angels in 1983, going 5âÂÂ10 with a 5.43 ERA.
Overall, Boxberger has a career record of 30âÂÂ55 with a 4.67 ERA in 134 minor league games. He walked 504 batters and struck out 389 in 702 innings.
Boxberger graduated from Foothill High School in Santa Ana, California. His son, Brad Boxberger, was a reliever in Major League Baseball.