Jake Rogers (baseball)

After the season, the Houston Astros selected Rogers in the third round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft.

He started the 2017 season with Quad Cities where he posted a .255 batting average with six home runs and 15 RBIs and was promoted to the Buies Creek Astros[8] where he greatly improved, posting a .265 average with a career high 12 home runs and 55 RBIs in 83 games.

On August 31, 2017, the Astros traded Rogers to the Detroit Tigers, along with Franklin Pérez and Daz Cameron, for Justin Verlander.

[13] In the next game on July 31, Rogers hit his first major league home run off the Angels' José Suárez.

[17] On September 8, the Tigers announced that Rogers had undergone Tommy John surgery and would miss at least a year.

On January 9, 2025, Rogers and the Tigers agreed to a one-year, $2.64 million contract, avoiding arbitration.