At the trade deadline, the Mets were on the hunt, not for stars, but for complementary pieces to bolster and fortify some of their shakier areas. One such area was the bullpen, which had a strong closer and a few good relievers, but also a lot of middle relievers being churned and to plug holes in the slowly sinking ship. And alongside trades for Gregory Soto (which largely worked) and Ryan Helsley (which largely didn’t), the Mets traded for Tyler Rogers.

Rogers is a submariner and was a career San Francisco Giant who the Mets got for a trio of Drew Gilbert, Blade Tidwell, and Jose Buttó. All of them had had their fair share of struggles but still had some potential, with Gilbert adding a bit of spark to the Giants’ failed playoff push. The Mets got a reliable late inning reliever in thei

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