Twins Signing Taylor Rogers

[Chembry]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/twins-to-sign-taylor-rogers.html

[stringer bell]

Not a bad move at all, but it doesn't move the needle much. The bullpen is still a major problem.

In checking Rogers out at BBRef, he is only a couple weeks short of ten years of service time, a mark that is surprisingly rare and significant.

A statistical oddity--Rogers' ERA and FIP are identical at 3.34.

[JCTwinsReborn]

Zero doubt this is a season of scrap heap pickups to go through the motions. If Lewis, Ryan, and even Buxton have decent starts to the year, how are they not demanding trades?

[bunsen82]

2 hours ago, JCTwinsReborn said:

Zero doubt this is a season of scrap heap pickups to go through the motions. If Lewis, Ryan, and even Buxton have decent starts to the year, how are they not demanding trades?

If we are over .500 - the bullpen seems functional and seems like could be effective if we trade for 1 or more bullpen arms at the deadline.  

[jctwins]

2 hours ago, bunsen82 said:

If we are over .500 - the bullpen seems functional and seems like could be effective if we trade for 1 or more bullpen arms at the deadline.  

That's a lot of ifs.

[bunsen82]

7 minutes ago, jctwins said:

That's a lot of ifs.

I think they could have the perfect offseason and people would still complain.  

[stringer bell]

Interesting to compare Taylor Rogers with his twin. They aren't much alike in style and Taylor has almost four more years of service time and has made a lot more money in his career, but Tyler has been the more effective reliever since Taylor was traded away from the Twins. Tyler signed a multi-year deal fir over $10M per year, while Taylor is getting a fraction of that salary and only got a one-year deal. 

[old nurse]

4 hours ago, bunsen82 said:

I think they could have the perfect offseason and people would still complain.  

They would complain if the team won the World Series that the team won’t be able to do it again because of the cheap Pohlads. 

[Doctor Wu]

Good signing, and good value, but as others have also said, it doesn't dramatically improve the bullpen. We still need a couple of more outside arms in addition to pitchers from the farm and/or ex-starters. 

[Twodogs]

2 hours ago, Doctor Wu said:

Good signing, and good value, but as others have also said, it doesn't dramatically improve the bullpen. We still need a couple of more outside arms in addition to pitchers from the farm and/or ex-starters. 

Bullpens are definitely finicky, I mean sometimes a team can spend big bucks on a bullpen and they are just average. Other times a couple of guys come out of nowhere and have great seasons and then all of the sudden a team has like a top 5 bullpen?  But in no way was it predicted at the beginning of the season.  I think the Dodgers spent like 60 million on their bullpen last year and they were using starting pitchers to close out games in the playoffs???  So hopefully a guy or two surprises and someone like Taylor Rodgers has a little bit of a renaissance?  Its not the way you'd draw it up, but it can happen in the bp with some no names easier than say in the rotation or in the infield/outfield.

[mac098]

I'm all for giving someone a chance, but do we really need to continue going for the bargain bin? We went from one of the strongest BP's to relatively the weakest. 

 

I know none of us are inside the Twins clubhouse, but unless we're planning on moving some SP prospects to the BP, I don't see us getting better in that area anytime soon.

[USAFChief]

23 hours ago, bunsen82 said:

I think they could have the perfect offseason and people would still complain.  

I think they could have a disaster of an off-season following a couple disastrous seasons and some people would still pretend it's perfect.

[KirbyDome89]

20 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I think they could have a disaster of an off-season following a couple disastrous seasons and some people would still pretend it's perfect.

I honestly can't tell if it's actually unbridled optimism bordering on delusion, or low key trolling for the sake of being contrarian. 

[ashbury]

On 1/22/2026 at 2:55 PM, bunsen82 said:

I think they could have the perfect offseason and people would still complain.  

 

1 hour ago, USAFChief said:

I think they could have a disaster of an off-season following a couple disastrous seasons and some people would still pretend it's perfect.

I think I'll have a drink.  It's Friday.

[RpR]

On 1/22/2026 at 11:24 AM, JCTwinsReborn said:

Zero doubt this is a season of scrap heap pickups to go through the motions. If Lewis, Ryan, and even Buxton have decent starts to the year, how are they not demanding trades?

Because they are members of a team, not self-centered snot faced brats.

[bunsen82]

20 hours ago, ashbury said:

 

I think I'll have a drink.  It's Friday.

The two of us just see things completely differently.   The issue is @Richie the Rally Goat had negotiated a truce that @USAFChief and I were going to ignore each other and not respond to each other posts - and I will log on to multiple laughing emojis and passive aggressive posts directed at me.  Guess I am the only one who honors a deal.   So yes I think a drink is good.