Tyler Rogers

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The submariner with a 'UFO' rising slider

Tyler Rogers, the one true submariner of the Statcast era, breaks everything we know about how pitch movement is supposed to work. When you release the ball a foot off the ground, weird things happen. Rogers is like no other pitcher in Major League Baseball today. He's like no other

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Here is a great article on Rogers' unique delivery and how his pitches function opposite of most pitchers. I found this paragraph particularly interesting:
"When Rogers was in the Minors -- where he spent over six years before his first big league callup -- coaches would see his submarine delivery and sinker-slider pitch mix and try to push him into a righty ground-ball specialist role. That's what made Rogers fight himself in his delivery. But once he got to the Majors, and especially since Bailey became the Giants' pitching coach, there was no more boxing him in."

Seems that his delay in making the big leagues was coach induced, even though his numbers suggested he should have been given a chance earlier. I'm just glad he got the chance and made the most of it.