A surprising team tried to acquire Trevor Rogers from the Marlins

One of the best trades of the Trade Deadline, was of course the one where the Miami Marlins traded starting pitcher Trevor Rogers to the Baltimore Orioles. It probably shouldn't be a surprise that another team was interested in the pitcher. Let's look into what happened and the importance of this information to us, Are you ready?

The Miami Marlins could've traded Trevor Rogers to the Cincinnati Reds.

The bizarre thing about the Trevor Rogers trade is that he certainly didn't seem like a good option to acquire. An injury prone arm, Rogers hasn't pitched over 109,2 innings in a season since 2021. Going back to 2022, he has a 5/02 ERA/4.41 FIP, with 8.2 K/9 and 3.8 BB/9 in 234.2 innings pitched. Even just this season, he had a 4.53 ERA/4.43 FIP in 21 games and 105.1 innings pitched.

Trevor Rogers was anything but an ace and at best, was a mid-rotation arm. Receiving two quality hitters was absolutely unheard of for someone with his (lack of) ability. That's better than what the actual aces on the market brought back. Peter Bendix knew what he was doing in other words.

I'm not sure why Baltimore's management were so high on Rogers, or what Bendix did to convince them that the price was fair. It does however turn out that the Cincinnati Reds had some interest. This is even more surprising when they were actually sellers at the Trade Deadline too, so presumably they were more interested in him as a long-term piece. That makes more sense to me, though again he's an odd player to think a selling team will need. I mean can he really be trusted enough to be a long-term piece with those results and injury history?

I wonder what kind of return Cincinnati would've sent The Fish back for Rogers. My guess is it wouldn't be a particularly high one, as they didn't need him as much as Baltimore (presumably). I assume the obvious, that Peter Bendix simply chose the highest return. I wonder if more information comes out on if other surprising teams had interest in Trevor Rogers.