Trevor Rogers sends telling message about Baltimore Orioles future

Rogers signed a one-year, $2.6 million deal before the 2025 season to avoid arbitration. He's under team control through 2026, which means he's sure to get a better deal with Baltimore in this upcoming offseason.

And Rogers will be incentivized to produce another spectacular 2026 campaign before he becomes an unrestricted free agent. Yet, perhaps there's a world where Rogers signs an extension with the team before he reaches that point.

Trevor Rogers Makes Claim About Future Years Spent in Baltimore

Rogers was caught by 21-year-old prospect turned rookie Samuel Basallo (who recently signed an eight-year, $67 million contract extension) against the Yankees on Friday. The 27-year-old hurler spoke with MASN's Roch Kubatko about his experience working with Basallo and shared an interesting message about his future.

“He's great. It just seems like we get more and more in tune with each other each start, and him being 21 years old and just having that knowledge behind the plate, seeing stuff and relaying that info to me... He's unbelievable," Rogers said of Basallo, per a September 21 article from Kubatko.

"So I'm very thankful I get to work with him in the years to come," Rogers added.

Rogers' saying "in the years to come" is catching attention, given what it could potentially mean about his future with the franchise lasting longer than one more season. However, Kubatko noted after quoting Rogers that fans should probably not read too much into it, suggesting that Rogers was speaking colloquially.

Still, Orioles fans will still like how this sounds from their ace.