SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tyler Rogers’ wife, Jennifer, remembers meeting his parents for the first time. She was nervous. Not about impressing her then-boyfriend’s family. She didn’t know if she’d be able to tell him apart from his twin brother, who rode along in the truck to pick her up.
Seventy-five times over, every player with the San Francisco Giants this spring training is experiencing the same feeling.
Before Taylor Rogers signed the three-year, $33 million free-agent contract that reunited him with his twin brother in the Giants’ bullpen, he and Tyler sat around his Littleton, Colorado, house (which they share for six weeks every winter), and discussed the potential downsides. This first week, with scores of interview requests and teammates struggling to tell them apart, was the first thing that came up.
