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Jimmy Rogers (baseball)

James Randall Rogers (born January 3, 1967) is former Major League Baseball pitcher. Rogers played for the Toronto Blue Jays in . He batted and threw right-handed.

Rogers graduated from Webster High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1985 where he was an all-state shortstop. After high school, he played college baseball at Oklahoma's Seminole State College. At Seminole State in 1986, he began pitching full-time and was selected by the Blue Jays in the 16th round of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft. In 1987, he was named to the 1987 ABCA/Rawlings NJCAA Division-I All-America First Team, helped lead Seminole State to the JUCO World Series and was projected as a first round pick in the 1987 draft, he signed with the Blue Jays instead of re-entering the draft.

After his playing career, Rogers spent more than a decade as an assistant coach for the Rogers State Hillcats baseball team.

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