Dunno for sure, but I can tell you how irrelevant it is.
It's at least ten years old btw.
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Dunno for sure, but I can tell you how irrelevant it is.
It's at least ten years old btw.
trigg3r
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The Rockies have nobody but themselves to blame. LaTroy is not the guy you should be putting in the closer role. It's probably going to take another blown save for them to realize that. Ottavino is probably your best overall high leverage reliever, so he might be getting the chance eventually with Axford taking a leave of absence due to family issues.
trigg3r
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There is hope for them. Not this season, but in the future if they tear it all down and begin the rebuild. A couple things need to go right of course. Tulo and Cargo would need to stay healthy and be productive until the ASB(obviously not a given considering how often they have missed games due to injury in the past) when they could deal both for decent returns. Maybe throw in some money to get yourself something better(both of those guys combined are owed 171 million going forward). I would say try to get a nice team favorable deal with Arenado that guarantees him a lot of money while buying out a year or 2 of free agency in the process with the savings but I don't think you can. He's a Boras client and unless he personally wants to do that then Boras will advise against it.
As we have witnessed with the Cubs and the current CBA, MLB rewards the worst teams in baseball with not only draft positioning but also with higher draft and IFA budgets. The Rockies can't be content with mediocrity. The worst position a team can be in is where the Rockies are right now. Not good enough to get into the playoffs and not bad enough to take advantage of the benefits of being a terrible team. We both witnessed similar things with the Cubs post 2008. At least then the CBA didn't limit how much you could spend on drafts or IFA classes with severe penalties attached to significant overage.
I was talking more about this season. No hope.
trigg3r
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He had a great game overall. Throwing Cozart out at 3rd on that botched pickoff attempt by Lester was a thing of beauty. That's not even counting the 2 2 run bombs and the single he ripped in the 10th. Shout out to Jumbo Diaz for throwing what should have been a neck high fastball(with how Pena was setting up out of the crouch) to Soler right down the middle and belt high. That was a beautiful mistake and I want to thank him for making it.
Bryant could be called up as soon as this weekend without having to worry about losing a year of control. Although many believe that it's more likely they will wait until next week's road trip to try to take some of the pressure that a Wrigley Field debut might put on him. Theo and Jed seem to prefer to do this with their top prospects so we'll see.