How Orioles’ Trevor Rogers regained his confidence, velocity: ‘It’s in his DNA’

Trevor Rogers and his wife, Tessa, were packing up their apartment shortly after one of the worst days of his life.

A little more than three years after pitching in the All-Star Game at 23 years old, Rogers’ career had been derailed by injuries and a decline in his velocity. His “slap-in-the-face moment” was being optioned to Triple-A in August by the Orioles, the team that acquired him only three weeks before.

“Hey, you need to get your s— together,” Rogers remembers telling himself.

As he and his wife put their belongings into boxes, he verbalized the self-doubt he’d been carrying with him for months — maybe even longer.

Read the full story on the Baltimore Sun.