Jennifer Rogers following in her father Steve's footsteps

Jennifer Rogers, daughter of former Montreal Expos ace Steve Rogers, has carved out an impressive career in media relations in the majors..

November 12, 2022

By Danny Gallagher

Canadian Baseball Network

Jennifer Rogers has been carving out a solid career for herself in media relations and marketing communications.

The daughter of Expos great Steve Rogers started her career in the majors in 2015 as an intern with the Kansas City Royals in the media department. The next year Jennifer worked in the Miami Marlins media-relations department.

Subsequent to that, she worked in media relations for the Minnesota Twins before landing with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2019. She then left the Brewers to work for the Detroit Tigers for 14 months and for several years, she has been a full-time marketing communications manager for the Detroit-based Ilitch Entertainment group which is run by the family that owns the Tigers. She was appointed department manager a year ago and now works remotely for Ilitch out of Milwaukee.

Growing up in Oklahoma where her father has lived for decades, Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, majoring in communications. While at the U of O, Jennifer worked as a reporter for the OU Daily where she got her feet wet in writing by covering baseball, rugby, gymnastics and football.

While with the Marlins, Twins, Brewers and Tigers, Jennifer’s workload ran the gamut of duties involving the media: arranging for interviews with players and executives, writing game notes, news releases and post-game analysis, handling credentials for local and national media and helping put together team media guides, among other assignments.

Along the way, Jennifer met OF Christian Yelich and is now dating the Brewers slugger.

The couple first met in 2016 when both were in Miami. When Jennifer was hired by the Brewers in 2019, Yelich had already moved on to Milwaukee and was coming off an MVP season with the club.

Yelich is under contract to the Brewers through the 2028 season after signing a nine-year deal worth $215-million in 2020.