The SF Giants bullpen was one of baseball’s best before the trade deadline. It had a 3.26 ERA, the second-best mark in baseball, when Tyler Rogers and Camilo Doval were dealt.
That is the backdrop for why Rogers is still a live search now. He has spent his first season with the Toronto Blue Jays and has been excellent, putting up a 1.77 ERA in 42 appearances on a three-year, $37 million pact that includes a team option for a fourth year.
For the SF Giants, the number that follows the trade tells the story. Since Rogers was moved, the bullpen has posted a 4.28 ERA, which ranks 20th in baseball. A unit that once leaned on Rogers, Doval, Randy Rodríguez and Erik Miller never really found the same shape again.
The loss of that core was not just about departures. Rodríguez later underwent Tommy John surgery, and Miller missed the second half of the year with an elbow sprain, leaving the group to piece together roles as the season wore on. Over the past 11 months, the bullpen has struggled to find consistency or stable jobs, and the decline has been long enough to look less like a brief wobble than a structural break.
That is what makes the Rogers trade matter beyond the deadline itself. The SF Giants did not simply lose a durable reliever; they lost a dependable part of the bullpen’s identity, and the team has not replaced that value with anything close to the same effect. The unanswered question is whether the current group can rebuild that edge before the 2026 season becomes defined by the damage already done.
