River Cats Conversation: Tyler Rogers

San Francisco Giants reliever Tyler Rogers joined Johnny Doskow to talk about his expanding family, his first MLB call up, and more.

JD: Tyler Rogers here. First of all, I want to ask about your soon-to-be baby. Due date is April 12th, right?

TR: Yes sir.

JD: How exciting is it for you?

TR: It’s an exciting time. First child. I am very excited about that. My wife is excited too. It’s going to be right around Opening Day.

JD: Exactly. You weren’t going to find out (the gender), but you had to find out. You found out it is a boy coming. Do you have the name or is that on the low?

TR: Yeah, Jack Ryan Rogers.

JD: Wow. Incredible. How was your offseason?

TR: Too long. It was good. I saw my family, did a little bit of traveling, and prepared for a little boy.

JD: I heard you in an interview earlier that this is the wedding season. Everybody in baseball knows it’s wedding season in the offseason. How many did you go to? Three or four?

TR: I think four. Logan Webb’s wedding, Brandon Crawford’s 10-year renewal, and one of our travel guys James.

JD: 107 wins last year. Obviously no one expected that, but I wouldn’t say you guys were surprised by that knowing who you had in that clubhouse last year, right?

TR: I’ll tell you what, the culture we have here … it’s something you can’t really force. It never really seemed forced how tight this clubhouse was. I think that really translated onto the field.

JD: You’ve been in clubhouses before, where look, going through the Minor Leagues, not everyone is going to be rooting for everybody, but in this clubhouse, you’ve said this before, you feel everyone is genuinely rooting for each other, no matter who is in the bullpen.

TR: Absolutely. Like you said, that is kind of rare. It is fun to know that when you are going out there that the other 25 guys have your back.

JD: How satisfying was it for you, all that time in the Minor Leagues, ‘Will I get my shot?’ Two-time PCL All-Star, and then finally getting your shot, being a key part of the bullpen, and closing. Take us through that a bit. You knew you could do that at the big league level. It was just getting that shot, right?

TR: Yeah. I feel like everyone’s debut, or when they get called up kind of catches them off guard. It certainly caught me off guard.

JD: It’s emotional because of the reaction of the guys. You and Tommy Everidge had the greatest amount of love for you in the clubhouse when you both got called up. That feeling, I know you’ll never forget that feeling when the guys celebrated.

TR: Yeah, just to see how happy they all were, it just made it that much more special. It shows the type of relationships that I built in Sacramento. I got a video from you all pumped up. That was pretty cool. I remember that.

JD: That’s awesome. Rog, congratulations on everything, the baby coming April 12. We look forward to watching you this year.

TR: Thanks, Johnny.