The Giants had put Taylor Rogers on waivers the previous season. It wasn’t much of a secret that the team was looking to move a chunk of his $12 million salary. But any awkward feelings were overcome by a greater sense of gratitude for the two amazing seasons that the Rogers brothers were able to spend as major-league teammates — a notion so impossible that they never even dared to dream about it.

I n 2021, the Giants went on a rampage through the National League, winning a whopping 107 games, and taking home an ultra-competitive division win in the West. It was pretty much