Tyler Rogers traded to New York Mets ahead of deadline

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NEW YORK (PIX11) — The New York Mets have added a relief pitcher to their bullpen who is in the middle of a career year, the team announced ahead of Thursday's trade deadline.
David Stearns pulled the trigger on acquiring right-handed submarine relief pitcher Tyler Rogers from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for prospects Blade Tidwell and Drew Gilbert, as well as relief pitcher José Buttó.
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Who is Tyler Rogers?
Rogers is in his seventh Major League season, all with San Francisco, before Wednesday's trade became official. The side-winding righty has a career 2.79 ERA in just under 400 innings pitched for the Giants.
Rogers' best full season came in the same year San Francisco had the most success it's seen over the last 10 years in 2021, where he had a 2.22 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 80 appearances.
His best season is shaping up to be 2025, however. In 53 appearances, Rogers has pitched to a 1.80 ERA with an ERA+ of 216 (league average is 100).
Rogers, 34, is a free agent at the end of the 2025 season.
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What did the Mets give up?
New York seemingly paid a hefty price for a potential rental relief pitcher by giving away three players, including a Major League pitcher in Jose Butto.
Buttó, 27, made his Major League debut in 2022 for one game, started seven games in 2023, and finally got his shot in 2024 as a full-time multi-inning reliever. In the 2024 season, he pitched to a 2.55 ERA in 74 innings, striking out 79 batters.
On the prospect front, Tidwell made two brief starts for New York as well as two relief appearances. In 15 innings pitched, Tidwell allowed 15 earned runs and four home runs. Tidwell, 24, is listed as the Mets' 10th-ranked prospect on MLB.com.
Just below Tidwell on MLB.com's rankings is outfielder Drew Gilbert. The left-handed slugger was drafted in 2022 by the Houston Astros and traded to New York along with outfielder Ryan Clifford in a deal for Justin Verlander in 2023.
Gilbert has 12 home runs and 46 RBI for the Syracuse Mets in 2025.
Buttó is out of Minor League options, Gilbert is eligible for the Rule-Five draft after 2025 and Tidwell was drafted by the previous general manager in Billy Eppler.
A high price to pay to the naked eye for a rental, but it seems to free up New York's flexibility moving forward.
Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work here.
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Osaka roars into WTA Montreal quarter-finals as Keys fights through

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Osaka roars into WTA Montreal quarter-finals as Keys fights through

Australian Open champion Madison Keys saved two match points on the way to a three-set victory over Karolina Muchova to reach the WTA Canadian Open quarter-finals on Sunday as former world number one Naomi Osaka roared into the last eight. Keys saved two match points on her own serve in the 10th game of the third set, striping a forehand on the first and escaping the second as Czech Muchova misfired on a service return. The American emerged with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory -- her third of the season that included saving a match point. "I'm really happy to get that win," Keys told the crowd in Montreal. "After losing the first set and even being match point down, being able to figure it out -- it's always a great day." Osaka had no need of heroics as she blew past Anastasija Sevastova 6-1, 6-0 in just 49 minutes. The four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan notched the second-quickest tour-level win of her career, after a 42-minute 6-1, 6-1 rout of Ana Sofia Sanchez in the first round at Florianopolis back in 2016. The dominant victory also marked the first time Osaka has conceded just one game or fewer in a completed match since a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Danielle Collins at Beijing in 2018. Perhaps more importantly, it's the first time Osaka has reached the last eight of a 1000 level event or Grand Slam since Doha in 2024. Osaka did not play in 2023 after the birth of her daughter and has struggled for consistency since returning to the game a year ago. She fell in the first round of the French Open and the third round at Wimbledon this year and arrived in Montreal ranked 49th in the world. But she has shaken things up this week, announcing she was parting with coach Patrick Mouratoglou after less than a year and immediately getting to work with Poland's Tomasz Wiktorowski -- former coach of Iga Swiatek. "I had a solid plan coming in here and it just happened to work out pretty well," Osaka said of her dominant performance against Sevastova, a former world number 11 also on the comeback trail after maternity leave who had beaten two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula in the third round. Osaka will face either American Amanda Anisimova or Ukraine's Elina Svitolina for a semi-final berth. Anismimova is playing her first tournament since a runner-up finish to Swiatek at Wimbledon, where she admitted she was overwhelmed by nerves in a 6-0, 6-0 loss to the Polish star in the final. Keys, who won 10 of the last 12 points of her match, will face the winner of the first night match between second-seeded Swiatek and Denmark's Clara Tauson. bb/js