Sports editorial team, December 12 (EFE). – The Toronto Blue Jays continued this Friday their plan to strengthen their pitching staff in the Major Leagues by granting right-hander Tyler Rogers a three-season, $37 million contract, the official portal MLB.com announced.
The pact with Rogers, which pays him an average annual salary of $12.3 million, also includes a number of bonuses that could increase his total value to $48 million.
After losing Game 7 of the last World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Toronto, Canada-based team’s management stated one of its goals was to strengthen its pitching staff in the major league market.
The signing of Rogers, along with Dylan Cease and Mexican Cody Ponce as well as the contract extension of Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber, is the most important step the Blue Jays have made in the current MLB market to strengthen their pitching for the 2026 season.
The 35-year-old right-hander, who was one of the key backup players on the Major League free agent market, split his playing time between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets in 2025.
During his journey, which began in San Francisco and ended in New York, Rogers once again demonstrated his consistency and endurance from the mound, building his fourth lead in games played in his seven seasons in the Major Leagues with 81 pitches.
The new member of the Blue Jays, whose pitching mechanics allow him to release the ball almost at ground level, a style popularly known as “submarine pitching”, has as his main throws a sinker and a slider, with which he usually creates weak contacts with which he eliminates his rivals.
This ability allowed Rogers to limit the damage caused by extra-base hits to just four home runs, seven doubles and one triple in the most recent MLB schedule.
In that campaign, Rogers caused batters to hit him with an average of just .229 in the 77.1 innings in which he worked, in which he struck out 48 batters, showed great control, allowed only seven walks and scored 17 earned runs against him, leaving his effectiveness percentage at 1.98, with a record of 4-6 in wins and losses. EFE
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