Another member of the 2025 Mets bullpen is waving goodbye to Queens.
Right-hander Tyler Rogers has agreed to a three-year, $37 million contract with the Blue Jays, noti.group’s Jon Heyman confirmed Friday night.
Heyman reported Thursday that the Mets were interested in bringing back the submariner, but his market in free agency was “robust.”
That market apparently included the Blue Jays, who gave the 34-year-old Rogers a fourth-year vesting option that could increase the value of the deal to $48 million. The contract does not include any deferrals.
Rogers was one of the three relievers — along with Ryan Helsley and Gregory Soto — whom the Mets acquired at the trade deadline in their ill-fated attempt to form a super bullpen down the stretch.
After coming over from the Giants, Rogers by far had the most success out of the three arms, pitching to a 2.30 ERA and 1.098 WHIP over 27 1/3 innings.
His 81 appearances between San Francisco and New York led the majors.
Rogers is a sinker-slider pitcher, and what he lacks in velocity — his sinker is nearly 11 mph slower than the MLB average — he makes up for in inducing weak contact.
Opponents have hit just .241/.285/.344 against him and his funky delivery.
Across 424 career innings, he holds a 2.76 ERA despite accumulating just 306 strikeouts. Only once has he finished a season with an ERA above 4.00, and that came in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign.
Rogers marks the third Mets reliever this week to leave New York for another club. Edwin Diaz signed a three-year, $69 million contract with the Dodgers while Soto inked a one-year, $7.75 million contract with the Pirates.
Toronto, which came two outs shy of winning the World Series, already signed top starter Dylan Cease to a $210 million deal this offseason and now locks down one of the most consistent relievers in the game this decade.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
