{"id":443451,"date":"2025-12-13T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443451\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:09:13","slug":"blue-jays-sign-tyler-rogers-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/443451\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Sign Tyler Rogers To Three-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays are in agreement with free agent reliever <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rogerty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Rogers<\/a><\/strong> on a three-year, $37MM contract, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1999640879217492252\">Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a>. The deal includes an $11MM vesting option for the 2029 season. The signing is still pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers secures a sizable payday to pitch at the back of the Toronto bullpen. One of the sport\u2019s most distinctive pitchers, Rogers is a soft-tossing submariner who bided his time awaiting his MLB opportunity. He was a 10th-round pick by the Giants in 2013 who signed for $7,500 after his senior season at Austin Peay State University. Rogers spent the next six years in the minor leagues, performing well all the way up through Triple-A but without the raw stuff to get the attention of the MLB team.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the end of Rogers\u2019 third full season in Triple-A that he received a big league call. He was nearing his 29th birthday and close to calling it quits to pursue a career as a firefighter (as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/how-giants-tyler-rogers-nearly-became-firefighter-before-mlb-call-up\/1296893\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a> covered in 2020). The Giants finally gave him an opportunity at the end of the \u201919 season. Rogers tossed 17 2\/3 innings of three-run ball to hold his roster spot. He broke camp the following year and has never gone back down to the minors \u2014 not even on a rehab stint.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers has played six-plus seasons in the big leagues without going on the injured list. While there\u2019s obviously some luck involved in avoiding any fluke injuries, it\u2019s clear that his underhand delivery puts less stress on his arm. Rogers has made 403 appearances since the start of the 2020 season. That\u2019s 30 more than any other pitcher. Most of those outings have come in high-leverage situations, as Rogers\u2019 arm angle continues to flummox hitters.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays are in agreement with free agent reliever Tyler Rogers on a three-year, $37MM contract, reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,68251,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-443451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tyler-rogers","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115709592517220711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}