Where's all the Taylor Rogers talk now?????

[Squirrel]

20 hours ago, chpettit19 said:

There's definitely a Jeffrey Dahmer joke in here somewhere...

I didn't know whether to 'yikes' or 'laugh at' this. It was a toss up.  

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I also miss Rooker.

 

But the trade clearly advanced the team in alphabetical order, so i am okay with it.

 

(And usually the standings tend to default to alphabetical order, all other things being equal, even if that has no bearing on reality)

[bean5302]

13 hours ago, Shaitan said:

Rogers is a good pitcher, but he's not elite.

Personally, I think he wouldn't been mediocre here this year anyway. A baseless hunch. He seems to perform best when surrounded by more high leverage arms. In MIN, he'd be the guy and he was pretty inconsistent the past couple of years. He was due for a change of scenery, as they say.

Best of luck to him.

I also still think you take 2 years of a SP for 1 year of RP almost every time.

I'm not sure what elite means to you. For the 163 relievers with 150+ innings in the past 5 years, Rogers ranks pretty highly.

• 4th (tied with Pressly in fWAR with 6.6 and only 0.3 behind 3rd)
• 4th in FIP (2.56)
• 8th in WPA (5.59)
• 11th in ERA (2.95)
• 30th in Innings (219.2)

Rogers is indisputably one of the top 10 relief pitchers in MLB and it would be hard to argue he's not top 5.