Ex-SF Giants reliever reunites with Twins on $2 million deal

Coming into this offseason, the SF Giants had an opportunity to reunite the Rogers twins after trading them both last season. It would have been poetic after trading them both away in 2025, but Taylor Rogers signed with an American League team just like Tyler.

Taylor just landed a one-year, $2 million contract with the Minnesota Twins. Tyler signed an impressive three-year, $37 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays in the offseason as he finally cashed in on his incredible consistency in a big way.

Former SF Giants reliever Taylor Rogers reunites with Twins

What a difference a few offseasons makes. Just a few years ago it was Taylor who was getting the big free agent contract as he signed a three-year, $33 million deal with San Francisco prior to the 2023 season.

He never quite lived up to that deal as he struggled initially in his Giants tenure but calmed things down after that tough start. The left-handed Rogers brother had a 3.83 ERA in 60 appearances with San Francisco in 2023 and followed that up with a 2.40 ERA in 64 appearances in 2024 with the Giants.

While those were solid numbers, Rogers was not really being used in high leverage situations by manager Bob Melvin. Maybe Melvin did not trust him in the big moments stemming from the struggles Rogers had when he played under Melvin for the San Diego Padres, but it was clear that the Giants were paying too much for a guy who was usually pitching the 6th inning.

That is why president of baseball operations Buster Posey made his first big trade as an executive by sending the former All-Star to the Cincinnati Reds ahead of the 2025 season.

Rogers had a solid campaign in 2025, sporting a 3.38 ERA in 57 appearances split between the Reds and the Chicago Cubs with a momentary stint on the Pittsburgh Pirates before he and his twin brother were traded on the exact same day.

it would have been funny if the twins had reunited again in free agency, but Taylor opted for a reunion of his own in Minnesota. Taylor’s lone All-Star appearance came in 2021 with the Twins and that’s the team he broke into the big leagues with. Sure, he doesn’t have the same velocity or raw stuff he had last time he was with Minnesota but he is older and wiser and knows how to get batters out even if his strikeout stuff isn’t what it once was.

At $2 million, a reunion with the Giants would have made some sense as they try to put some semblance of a bullpen together. But it seems the Giants are going for as low-cost of a bullpen remodel as possible and they did not opt for a tear-down, keeping the main studs from last year’s bullpen even if that group was shaky by the end of the season.

Nonetheless, it’s still nice to see the Rogers twins at it and in the same league. Maybe someday they will be reunited again.