2025 Report Card: Tyler Rogers, RHP
Player Data: Age 34 (12/17/1990)
Primary Stats: 0-3, 2.30 ERA, 1.098 WHIP, 27.1 IP, 10 SO, 3 BB, 28 G
Advanced Stats: 177 ERA+, 9 K%, 2.7 BB%, 3.57 xERA, 3.32 FIP, 3.69 xFIP, 0.4 fWAR, 0.7 bWAR
2025 Salary: $5.2 million (1.64 w/Mets)
GRADE: B
2025 Review
There are only a few active submarine pitchers in baseball, and the Mets acquired the best of them at the 2025 trade deadline. Tyler Rogers was sent to Queens from San Francisco in exchange for what some considered a haul: right-hander José Buttó, pitching prospect Blade Tidwell, and outfield prospect Drew Gilbert.
Rogers was drafted as a reliever out of Austin Peay State University and had spent his entire career in the bay area up until this year. As can be the case with relievers, he made his debut late at the age of 28 in 2019. Since then, he’s made a career at inducing weak ground ball contact and exercising pinpoint command relying on a sweeping slider and low-80s sinker, both of which generate extreme horizontal movement. Outside of low velocity and strikeout related metrics, Rogers’ Baseball Savant page remained a sea of red in 2025.
The righty was on pace for a career best year in many metrics before being added to what many were dubbing a Mets ‘Super Pen’ after the deadline had passed. While we all know the pen was anything but ‘Super’, Rogers was more often than not a part of the solution. After a bumpy August where he gave up 19 hits in 15 innings, Rogers settled down in September and put in a vintage month. In 12 innings Rogers had a 2.25 ERA, a 0.833 WHIP, and held opponents to a .543 OPS and .232 wOBA.
Here is where Rogers ranks in several key analytics:
- 2.63 xERA (96th percentile)
- 85.8 mph average exit velocity (99th)
- 2.3 walk rate (100th)
- 2.1 barrel rate (100th)
- 33.1 hard hit rate (95th)
2026 Overview
For the first time, Rogers will test free agency, and ordinarily entering the free agent market at the age of 35 tends to not be in favor of the player. However, akin to his delivery, Rogers’ situation is unique. His success isn’t built on velocity, and relievers tend to age more gracefully. Rogers remains effective and could return as a stabilizing piece in the Mets’ bullpen overhaul.
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