Giants trade Taylor Rogers to Reds for Minor League reliever
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The Giants offloaded some salary by trading left-handed reliever Taylor Rogers to the Reds in exchange for Minor League reliever Braxton Roxby, the clubs announced on Wednesday.
According to a source, San Francisco is sending $6 million to Cincinnati to help cover the $12 million Rogers is owed in 2025, the final year of the three-year, $33 million deal he signed in December 2022.
TRADE DETAILS
Reds get: LHP Taylor Rogers, cash
Giants get: RHP Braxton Roxby
The move splits Rogers from his twin brother, Tyler, a right-handed submariner who is currently the longest-tenured member of the GiantsĄŻ bullpen. The brothers should have a chance to reunite for Opening Day, as the Giants are scheduled to play their 2025 opener at Great American Ball Park on March 27.
Rogers, 34, logged a 2.40 ERA over 64 relief appearances last season, though he was supplanted by rookie Erik Miller as the GiantsĄŻ top left-handed option and wasnĄŻt often deployed in high-leverage situations. The Giants made Rogers available to other clubs by placing him on waivers in late August, but he ended up going unclaimed.
RogersĄŻ departure leaves the 26-year-old Miller as the only left-handed reliever on the GiantsĄŻ 40-man roster, though the club recently brought in another option by signing former Padres and Mets southpaw Joey Lucchesi to a Minor League deal last week.
Lucchesi, a Newark, Calif., native, has made only 11 appearances in the Majors over the past two years and spent most of the 2024 campaign at the MetsĄŻ Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse, where he posted a 4.70 ERA over 27 appearances (17 starts).
Roxby, 25, signed with the Reds as an undrafted free agent in 2020 and recorded a 5.21 ERA over 39 appearances for Double-A Chattanooga last year.