ERIE, Pa. -- The Tigers shuttled 34 pitchers through their Double-A roster this season. Their common denominator was the guy behind the plate.
That says a lot about what Jake Rogers meant to the Erie SeaWolves this season. So, too, do the pitchers who threw to him.
"He's incredible, to put it simply," Kyle Funkhouser, the Tigers' ninth-ranked prospect by MLB Pipeline, said earlier this summer. "He receives really well above average. He throws well above average. And he's really good at adapting to each pitcher.
"I'm really comfortable with him and I trust what he puts down pretty much in any situation.