Trevor Rogers

Trevor J'Daniel Rogers

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 6", Weight 185 lb.
High School Carlsbad (NM) High School
Debut August 25, 2020

Born November 13, 1997 in Carlsbad, NM USA

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Pitcher Trevor Rogers was the 13th overall pick of the 2017 amateur draft, by the Miami Marlins. He signed for a bonus of $3.4 million but did not pitch professionally that year, instead beginning his career in 2018 with the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic League. In 17 starts, he was 2-7, 5.82, allowing 48 runs on 86 hits in 72 2/3 innings. He did post a solid K/W ratio, however, with 85 Ks and 27 walks. He had one great outing on July 29th, when he defeated the Hickory Crawdads, 2-1, taking a no-hitter until two were out in the 8th and striking out 12 batters.

He made his major league debut late in the 2020 season, being a bit lost in the shuffle among a great group of young starting pitchers that had surprisingly kept the Marlins in contention. He went 1-2, 6.11 in 7 starts, but still struck out an impressive 39 batters in 28 innings. He made one appearance in the postseason, pitching 1 2/3 innings in relief against the Atlanta Braves in Game 3 of the NLDS; he allowed 3 runs (2 earned) in a 7-0 loss. In 2021, he got off to a great start, earning National League Rookie of the Month honors for April when he went 3-1, 1.29 in 5 starts, with 38 strikeouts in 28 innings. He was a repeat winner of the award in May, when he went 3-2, 2.34, with another 38 strikeouts. Overall, he was 7-8, 2.64 in 25 starts that season and was named to the 2021 All-Star Game.

In 2022, he experienced the yin to the previous year's yang, as he fell to a record of 4-11, 5.47 in 23 starts. After limiting hitters to 107 hits in 133 innings the previous year, he was battered for 116 in 107 innings, and saw both his walk rate rise and his strikeout rate fall, the latter from 157 to 106, almost two fewer strikeouts per 9 innings. He was off to a decent start in 2023, going 1-2, 4.00 in his first four starts with over a strikeout per inning when he went on the injured list on April 21st with a left biceps strain. He then suffered a setback during his final rehabilitation outing in June with a right lat strain, an injury that could only heal with extended rest. As a result, he did not pitch again that year, and instead had to find other ways to occupy his time while his teammates made an unexpected run to the postseason. He found a new passion for building Lego models while biding his time.

He returned to action in 2024, but the Marlins soon went into a free-fall and his record reflected this, as he was 2-9, 4.53 after 21 starts, with 85 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings. The Marlins took advantage of the trading deadline to trade a number of established players for younger ones, and on July 30th it was Trevor's turn to be dealt, being sent to the Baltimore Orioles in return for two young players with major league experience, but who had trouble finding playing time on a team loaded with talent like the Orioles. The two were IF Connor Norby and OF Kyle Stowers. Rogers pitched poorly for his new team, however, going 0-2, 7.11 in 4 starts before being optioned to the AAA Norfolk Tides, where he went 1-2, 5.65 in 5 starts.

It wasn't clear whether Rogers figured in the Orioles' plans when spring training started in 2025, given how poorly he had pitched both in the majors and in AAA after his acquisition the previous season, and he started the year on the injured list. After a rehabilitation assignment in AA, he returned to Norfolk at the end of April but continued to struggle, going 0-3, 5.46 in 7 starts. Still he was a pitcher with major league experience and the Orioles, off to a poor start, needed that. He was called up for a spot start in the second game of a doubleheader on May 24th and did well, pitching 6 1/3 scoreless innings in which he gave up just two hits to the Boston Red Sox. He was called up again in mid-June, and continued to pitch well for the O's, including 8 innings of scoreless ball that resulted in his first win of the season, 6-0, over the Texas Rangers, on June 23rd. In his next start on June 30th, he became only the third starting pitcher not named Shohei Ohtani to bat in a game since the adoption of the universal DH in 2022. This was the result of the Orioles starting back-up catcher Gary Sanchez as their DH; when catcher Chadwick Tromp had to leave the game due to an injury in the 3rd inning, interim manager Tony Mansolino had do choice but to move Sanchez behind the plate, thus foregoing the DH for the remainder of the game. As Rogers was pitching well, he batted twice, striking out both times, before leaving in the 6th inning, in a game Baltimore won, 10-6, in 11 innings. He then put together a great month of August that resulted in his being named the American League Pitcher of the Month. He went 4-1, 1.29 in 6 starts and pitched a complete game on August 1st, although ironically that was his only loss of the month as he allowed 1 run in 8 innings in a 1-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs; the Orioles won all five of his other starts.

He is a cousin of Cody Ross.

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2021 Topps All-Star Rookie Team
NL All-Star (2021)

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