The Rockies have the second-worst record in the National League and will again head into deadline season without a chance to compete for a playoff spot. Colorado has been reluctant to move players in past summers even when they’ve looked to be clear deadline sellers.
It remains to be seen how general manager Bill Schmidt and his front office will approach the coming months, yet it doesn’t seem they’re keen on dealing their best position player. MLB Network’s Jon Morosi tweeted this morning that the Rockies are unlikely to make Ryan McMahon available. They’ll certainly get calls from other clubs inquiring about the possibility; Morosi reports that the Blue Jays are among the teams already showing interest in the veteran third baseman.
As part of a reader mailbag, Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post also suggests he doesn’t anticipate the Rockies dealing McMahon. Saunders floats second baseman Brendan Rodgers and catchers Elias Díaz and Jacob Stallings as more realistic possibilities. The returns for any of those players would be minimal, though. Colorado could seek a much better prospect package for McMahon than they’d receive for any of Díaz, Stallings or Rodgers.
Of course, that’s a testament to McMahon’s talent and excellent start to the 2024 campaign. In 234 plate appearances, he’s hitting .286/.366/.483 with a team-leading 10 home runs. McMahon is on pace for personal-best marks in all three slash stats. He ranks in the top 10 among qualified hitters in hard contact rate, topping a 95 MPH exit velocity on a massive 55.2% of batted balls. McMahon is drawing walks at a lofty 11.5% rate and has cut his strikeout percentage by six points relative to last season. While he’s still punching out at a higher than average clip (25.6%), this level of swing-and-miss is more than reasonable for a player with his power and plate discipline.
Even after accounting for Coors Field, McMahon has been produced as a middle-of-the-order bat. His defensive grades in this season’s 467 innings are around average, but he’s been one of the sport’s best defensive third basemen over the course of his career. McMahon has been a solid regular since 2021 and is playing at an All-Star level this season.
That arguably makes this the best opportunity for the Rockies to move him. He’s amidst a career year at age 29. Colorado has no playoff hope this season; it’s hard to see a path to even fringe Wild Card contention next year. The Rox probably won’t have a meaningful postseason chance until his age-31 season at the earliest. It’s unlikely McMahon would be as valuable a trade candidate at that point as he is now. Even if he maintains this increased performance level, he’ll be deeper into the slightly backloaded six-year extension that he signed in Spring Training 2022.
McMahon is under contract for three and a half more seasons. He’s playing this season and next on $12MM salaries and will make $16MM annually in 2026-27. He could technically play his way into an opt-out opportunity, but that requires a top five finish in MVP balloting that seems unlikely even with his current production.
The extra three seasons make it unsurprising that the Rox don’t seem eager to deal McMahon, even if this summer could be a sell-high window. Colorado held onto Trevor Story and Jon Gray when they were impending free agents a couple seasons ago; they did the same with Brent Suter last summer. They’ve extended other potential trade candidates like Díaz, Antonio Senzatela and Kyle Freeland in recent years. The Rockies have steadfastly resisted taking trades that they consider to be below a player’s value, even if it meant losing them in free agency not long after. That strategy generally hasn’t yielded good results, but the Rox could justifiably distinguish their past inactivity on rentals from holding onto a key player they have signed for another three years.
Díaz, Stallings and Rodgers would be much less significant subtractions. The veteran catching tandem has produced well, but they’re each impending free agents who are into their mid-30s. Rodgers is under arbitration control through 2025. The former #3 overall pick has never developed into the caliber of player that the Rockies anticipated. He’s hitting .266/.308/.342 with just one homer in 50 games this season; it’s not out of the question he’s simply non-tendered next winter.
As for the Jays, they’re a sensible suitor for offensive help even if the Rockies don’t want to move McMahon specifically. The Jays entered the season with questions at third and second base. Offseason pickup Isiah Kiner-Falefa has done a nice job at the hot corner, hitting .269/.315/.410 in 169 plate appearances. He’s capable of playing essentially anywhere, so the Jays could move him around the diamond if they added third base help. Using Kiner-Falefa more frequently at second base would push Davis Schneider more definitively to left field and allow the Jays to cut into the playing time of the struggling George Springer.
Toronto is in last place in the AL East at 25-29, but they’re not likely to pivot towards selling until it’s absolutely necessary. The Jays have a veteran-laden roster seeking a third consecutive playoff berth and their fourth trip in five years.
wow
I know right, and here I was hoping my team would get him for so magic beans
Rockies gotta Rockie.
Everytime I see something about the Rockies being sellers it makes me think of Matt Holiday….he literally sacrificed his face trying to will them to the playoffs. That was a magical stretch to end that season.
Why trade him, they can get a draft pick instead. They don’t care one iota how the team plays. They have all the suckers paying good money to watch a lousy team,
He’s not a free agent after the season.
He’s controlled through 2027. So they may get a pick in…2028.
As best I can tell, Rockies’ ownership and management believes playing at altitude is the reason they are constantly terrible. They do not see their personnel moves or player development as a problem. I am not sure how they explain the good years they have had (2007, 2009) when deploying actual quality players. But they clearly act as though losing is inevitable and they should therefore keep guys they like???
That’s exactly it. Wins and losses are irrelevant to the equation, and that’s a philosophy that begins at the top with the Monforts and will continue until they die or sell the team. Their measure of success is the turnstiles spinning, and that’s it.
Playing at altitude then going on the road and vice versa takes a toll you couldn’t even imagine. It’s definitely a big reason why it’s hard to win there.
classic rockies lmao
I mean, they’re not competing anytime soon, they could get some good prospects on return. But Rockies are known for doing these moves, like Trevor Story.
They have proven they are quite inept and evaluating (and trading) talent. Not just with Story, but Tulo and Arenado as well. For the latter, Jeff Bridich should have been fired. Instead, they waited until he got caught boozing around town.
The only trade that paid dividends that I can immediately recall was the Matt Holliday/Carlos Gonzalez trade.
Corey Dickerson for German Marquez and Jake McGee was a good one.
As far as Arenado goes, he is not exactly lighting it up in “The Lou” and Austin Gomber is looking like a solid SP. That trade doesn’t look AS bad right now.
And provided opportunity for McMahon who has shown to be a decent placement for Arenado as was bouncing between positions while 3B was occupied
By not trading Trevor Story, the Rockies were able to draft Sterlin Thompson, one of their best prospects, who is likely more valuable than ANY prospect they would have gotten at the deadline that year. There were no contenders looking for shortstops, so the price was not going to be high. The Rockies did better by not trading Story. Gray is a different story, but they held out hope that he would re-sign. They got burned, but it’s not the worst mistake a team has ever made.
@hiflew Nice try. Trading Gray wouldn’t have meant they couldn’t sign him. So the thought of signing him long-term does nothing to justify not trading him.
We will see what Sterlin Thompson does/becomes.
I am not trying to justify anything. I am just pointing out WHY they did or did not trade someone. No it doesn’t mean they couldn’t re-sign him, but it does mean that they would give away to another team their two months advantage on re-signing him.
What Thompson does or does not turn into is completely irrelevant. Whether he is successful or not doesn’t matter because the point is what kind of prospect he is NOW. He is as good or better than any prospect they would have received for Story.
“… but it does mean that they would give away to another team their two months advantage on re-signing him.”
Doesn’t look like it was much (if any) of an advantage.
“He is as good or better than any prospect they would have received for Story.”
You couldn’t possibly know that unless you have inside knowledge as to what was or wasn’t offered. And looking at the situation ex ante, he was the 31st player drafted that year. The best player ever drafted at #31 was Greg Maddux but I only count 5 that put up 5 or more WAR in their careers. Obviously the prospects they could have gotten in trade for Story weren’t guaranteed to pan out either but ranked against your average #31 overall pick I think I’d take the trade.
You might want to look up the definition of the word advantage. It is not a synonym of guarantee.
What difference does it make what WAR the guys drafted at #31 in 1971 or 1995 accumulated? How does that affect the opinion of Thompson in any way at all?
But you obviously are not going to care what I type, you have your mind made up. So have a nice day
“You might want to look up the definition of the word advantage. It is not a synonym of guarantee.”
I fundamentally believe that the prospects you could get by trading a guy away (or keep by not trading for him) are worth more than any marginal advantage that trading for him (or not trading him away) *might* give you. As a Padre fan I tire of people defending the Soto trade on the grounds that it would make it easier to sign him. I’m just not going to support parting with CJ Abrams, MacKenzie Gore and James Wood in order to *maybe* have a slightly easier time signing a guy who you are going to have to pay record-setting money to sign either way.
“What difference does it make what WAR the guys drafted at #31 in 1971 or 1995 accumulated? How does that affect the opinion of Thompson in any way at all?”
It means that players similar to Trevor Story get traded as deadline rentals almost every year and they typically get better returns than the #31 overall pick in next year’s draft. The draft is very much a crapshoot at that point. And you are saying you’d rather have Thompson with the hindsight that he would develop into a top 100 prospect. Schmidt didn’t have that when he chose not to trade Story.
“But you obviously are not going to care what I type, you have your mind made up.”
Well if that’s not projection…
It is pretty rare that players are traded and then sign with team that traded them. I’d say it creates animosity and creates an enormous disadvantage for trying to sign a player.
@Tigers3232 It doesn’t create any animosity or put them at any disadvantage bub! The reason it isn’t super common is because most of the time when a player is traded during a contract year his original team either can’t afford to bring him back or simply isn’t interested. I’ll bet you can’t name even one player who verifiably refused to sign with his original team specifically *because* they traded him.
Guess I’m going to be waiting a while for that player who verifiably refused to sign with his original team specifically *because* they traded him, lol.
How would you know if it creates animosity or not? Players usually have a place to live in Home city of franchise. Being traded mid-season would by all means be an inconvenience. Humans are creatures of habit, change is something that makes most discomfortable.
“How would you know if it creates animosity or not?”
Because no player has ever said it did or left $ on the table to sign with someone else after their original team traded them and then offered them the most $.
It is a pretty small sample size of teams that traded a player and then actually made a sincere effort to bring him back and those teams have not been shown to be at any disadvantage. Teams that attempted to lowball the player are a different story.
vice.com/en/article/qkykkv/how-traded-players-reco…
There’s countless articles about the inconvenience. Also countless articles about concern for potential clubhouse issues just from a player rumored to be traded who was never moved.
Yes there are likely some exceptions who do not hold any ill will. By and large though even if a player says otherwise, it’s hard not to take personal. It also would clearly be an inconvenience just as moving is for anyone. Imagine finding out with zero notice though.
@Tigers3232 Your little article says nothing about a player holding being traded against his former team come contract time. And why would a player take being traded personally if the trade makes sense from a baseball standpoint? (i. e. he’s a rental and the team is out of contention) If anything being traded is the best case scenario there because you get a shot at winning a championship and it removes the possibility of you receiving a QO. Unless and until you can cite a specific example of a player holding being traded against his former team in contract talks all your prognostication about how the player might not like this or the clubhouse might not like that means bo-diddly squat.
Why dont you start naming from the extensive list of players who were traded and then resigned with the team that traded theem…
@Tigers3232 I can name ten players that did that for every one player you can name that refused to sign with the team specifically *because* they traded him.
Yet you have named zero that have resigned after being traded. Way to try and deflect instead of adding anything of substance.
@Tigers3232 I’ve added plenty of substance. You can’t name a single player who trading him was verifiably a factor in him not signing with his original team. Not one. The fact of the matter is that most of a time when a player is traded during his contract year his original team simply isn’t interested in bringing him back. The sample size of cases where a team traded a player and actually wanted to bring him back is very small.
Again here you are deflecting from what was originally asked to you. The fact that you have to talk around questions says it all….
@Tigers3232 I’m not answering that because it’s irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how often it does or doesn’t happen if you aren’t going to delve any deeper into why. I can’t think of a single player who was traded during a contract year who we have any reason to believe that he would have stayed HAD he not been traded, all other things equal. Reason to believe that would be, like, him publicly saying it or him signing with someone else for less money than what his original team is offering.
Anyway, we are talking about Jon Gray. The Rockies weren’t able to sign him even with not trading him so trading him couldn’t have hurt them on that front. And if I’m Jon Gray at the 2021 trade deadline I’m honestly pretty pissed that the Rockies didn’t let me have a chance at a ring that year.
Release Bryant. Just get rid of him.
Always easy to just throw away someone else’s $28 million per year.
I live in Denver and find this team a pi$$ poor franchise, right up there with Oakland. The organization is an abolute dumpster fire from Dick Monfort right on down the line.
The Rockies have an amazing ballpark and a loyal fanbase. The fanbase has proven time and time again that if the organization puts a quality produict on the field they will show up.
Instead, they have an owner who cries poor in one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country and has absolutely no business in the revenue sharing as Denver is nowhere near “small market”. When your owner comes out and says “.500 is the goal”, it’s an embarrassment to the sport.
Monfort has no motivation to build a winner. He get’s 20MM/year for being small market and the vast amount of transplants fill Coors Field for the opponent (I was there this past weekend for the Phillies series and it was a home series for the Phillies). Why would he have any energy to spend money when the opposition fills his stadium (or sells it out) for 50% of the Rockies home games.
It’s disgusting. Rockies fans deserve much better.
At least with the Rockies, there’s no false hope attached, and you know what you’re getting when you look at their roster.
The Angels had two of the best players on earth at the same time, an owner willing to spend money on top free agents, and they still can’t even scrape their way up to .500.
Very True Jarred, but you can’t blame Artie Moreno for being cheap and not trying to win by spending money. Might be stupid money, but he spent it trying to improve.
Moreno might have made some poor contract deciwsions, but his attempt to create a winner is there. His biggest free agent signings are middle-aged veterans past thier primes or overevaluated medicore talent.
They had arguably the best player of the 2000s (Pujols), the 2010s (Trout), and maybe the 2020s (Ohtani), all at the same time and did nothing with it.
I am not a Monfort fan, but he cannot win with the critics. When he used to come out and say that 90 wins was the goal, everyone said he was delusional for thinking his team could win that many. Then when he said .500 is the goal, people are eviscerating him for not aiming high enough. You may not agree with his plan, but at least he should be worthy of respect for not kowtowing and changing his whole organizational strategy every time a mistake is made.
You don’t have to be a Rockies fan just because you live in Denver. With the MLB package, you are not limited to the local team anymore. I am a long time Rockies fan and I live in Kentucky. Don’t like what they do, there are 29 other teams that might be different.
I’m not quite sure there is an organizational strategy besides Monfort surrounding himself with yes-men and perpetually reaping the steady profits from a loyal fanbase. From a business standpoint, that’s great for the owner. It’s terrible for the fans but they do keep enabling him not to change.
So he doesn’t surround himself with people constantly tearing him down and makes money at his business and that makes him a bad man? It just amazes me that fans get upset because owners make money off their teams. Owners are not giving charity to the fans or spending millions in order to get a trophy that costs a few thousand, they are selling them a product. ALL owners are doing it for the money. Without it, there would be no pro sports at all.
“It’s terrible for the fans but they do keep enabling him not to change.”
Not much the fans can do about it, sadly. Even if they attempted to boycott tthe team, Monfort will not care becuase the visiting teams sellout for him.
You have to think, 6 games each (at a minimum) against SF, LA, SD, and AZ along with a minimum of 3 games each against PHL, NYM, ATL, CHI, STL,
That’s 39 out of 81 home games that will have the stadium at least 75% full, if not sold out (On Sunday, Phillies brought over 47k to Coors Field).
After that, you have some combination of 3 games each from LAA, CHISOX, NYY, BOS, HOU, TEX, OAK, BAL. If half of those teams come in a given year, that’s an additional 12 games, bringing the total to 51 games or 50% of the Rockies entire home schedule.
Plus, you’ll always find popular opposing teams merch fully stocked in the stores around the ballpark, adding to the revenue.
Monfort has to do nothing for the Rockies to be in the tops in attendance every year and not be held accountable by the fanbase and there’s nothing any Rockies fan can do about it.
@ – hiflew I’m not a Rockies fan. I’m a Phillies Phan and I already have the MLB.TV package. I will not root against them, but I certainly do not root for them due to their garbage ownership.
My point about living in Denver was to point out my reference for knowledge on the Rpckies as my avatar clearly states that I am a Philly Phan. Both of which I see you failed to pick up on.
Have fun being a Rockies fan, Monfort thanks you for spending money on nothing. Since you want tyo give money away for nothing, I’m sure we will all take some if you are so inclined to be so generous. We’d probably appreciate it (at use it more wisely) than Monfort would.
I was happy to spend my money watching the Rockies win 2 of 3 over your Phillies last week.
The sun shines on a dog’s a$$ once in awhile. First series loss since April 2nd.
Rockies are already making golfing plans for October. Phillies are aiming for parade reservations.
I wish MLB would force majority owners to disclose red and black ink to the public at the end of the season. Revenue was roughly $378M per team in 2023, so if MLB forced this and fans saw the Rockies made $40M profit, Monfort would have to take the backlash. If they saw the org barely broke even, we would know it’s more about front office issues, a lack of talent, or a bad TV deal/not getting butts in the seats. But something tells me the Rockies are doing just fine.
Just an aside: I agree that Denver isn’t a small market but it’s also not huge, even at its rapid growth. It’s still 17th in the US in 2024. All 16 markets in front of them have MLB teams except for Orlando. Market size isn’t a great indicator anymore though. TV deals are the biggest factor in profitability.
Dude isn’t that good. Has never had a wRC+ over 95 in any season. Nobody’s fooled by his hot start
Cut his K’s by %, high hard hit rate and peak performance in a prime age year is a reasonable.projection. McMahon’s also one of the best hot streak hitters in the league, too, just have deal with his three-week lulls when he strikes out too much.. He’s also never had much of any lineup protection and would probably get a boost just by going to a contender.
Of course, if they’re not going to trade him….can’t fix stupid club decisions. Especially when the owner calls them contenders every off-season.
Rox have some nice young hitters. Mcmahon, tovar, romo looming in AAA, sp like Dollander, Palmquist, Sullivan in minors
But they’ll never W until they find a way to deal with the colorado air. Most gms are 10-9, 12-8
The air has no effect. Colorado has never had good pitching because none of the pitchers they employ have ever been very good.
The density is about 20% in Colorado than at sea level which impacts all air/ball phenomenon. Fly balls travel about 10% further at Coors than other parks. The low air density also has a negative impact on breaking balls since the forces acting on the ball to incude the movement are lower. Breaking pitches move about 20% less in Colorado than in other ballparks which also makes it difficult to pitch in.
If your breaking ball is bottom of the barrel at sea level, it doesn’t matter. Develop better pitchers.
Everyone has bad numbers in Coors. Maddux and Kershaw both have career ERA’s above 4.5 in Coors. Rockies will need to out score opponents.
What the Rockies need to do is invest in an analytics department. The Rockies and White Sox have the smallest analytic departments in the league and it shows.
And the Rockies pitchers are bad in Denver, in LA, in a house, and with a mouse. Develop better arms. They’ve played AA and AAA duds for 30 years and blamed elevation for not even once lucking into a Verlander or an even average rotation. It’s exhausting
Here we go with this argument again.
Yes, there is some truth to the thin air, but not nearly what teams make of it, especially with the humidors now. The thin air has a much bigger affect on something entirely different.
Anyone that has gone to Coors Field knows that the outfield is cavernous compared to other parks and requires a speedy CF to cover enough ground. Additionally, the thin air affects the travel of a batted ball more than any other factor given the thin air and hieght at time of travel. The ball does not tail nearly as much at altitude as it does at sea level. Many visiting outfielders end up over running a fly ball and what would have been a homerun had a ball had a normal tail pattern tailing to the shorter corner walls is now a fly out or double off the wall becuase the ball didn’t “hook”. How many HR’s that wrap around the fould pole are seen at Coors compared to other parks? Additionally, the RF wall is double the hieght of most other parks. Yet pundits fail to notice these types of things.
16 for 20 – Thin air and snow didn’t seem to affect Cliff Lee’s curveball in the 2009 WC series.
Come to think of it, it didn’t seem to affect the Red Sox in 2007, either.
More to your point – draft and produce good pitching. Sign the hitters.
Have you watched a game since 2002? It is definitely a hitters park, there is no doubt, but it’s really not that different than anywhere else until it gets hot. In April and May, there were multiple games where the score was 1-0, 2-0, and 2-1. Many games have been scoreless until the bullpens came in.
How many pitchers have they developed since 2002? 5?
-Ubaldo Jimenez
-Aaron Cook
-Antonio Senzatela
-German Marquez
-Jon Gray
Produce better talent
Jeff Francis and Kyle Freeland both produced top 5 Cy Young years. How many SHOULD they have produced? For that matter, how many does the average franchise produce?
Almost every team, in the last 20 seasons has had at least 2 pitchers either drafted or traded for as a prospect prior to making thier MLB debut.
For the Phillies, I can think of Cole Hamels Aaron Nola (twice), Carlos Carrasco (after Cliff Lee trade to CLE), just off the top of my head. That will follow with Ranger Saurez come the end of this year, maybe even an outside chance (very outside) that Chrisopher Sanchez sniffs Top 5.
If you want to go deeper and got to top 10 in this category, add 4 more for Aaron Nola and 5 more for Cole Hamels.
Point being that the Rockies are WELL below average in that department.
The Rockies had more than 2. Those 2 were just left off the previous guy’s list of 5. They might not have the lists of the Dodgers or Mets or Giants, but they also don’t have the pitcher’s park of the Dodgers or Mets or Giants. Keep in mind, Clayton Kershaw has a career ERA around 5.00 in Coors. If he was a Rockies player, everyone would call him a bum too.
They’d probably do it and pay 10MM/year of what is left on the Bryant contract while taking on 100% of Baez.
Yes, they are that inept.
Atkin’s replacement should be selling, not buying.
A team without a plan.
I’m not a Rockies fan myself, but I would genuinely rather be a fan of a team that actually planned on being bad and rebuilding than whatever the Rockies are doing. I’m more willing to deal with a detailed plan — even if it means a few pretty bad years — than with a team just spinning their wheels and hoping something changes when nothing ever will.
They’re never willing to trade any of their players — even when they have no plans on re-signing them, in which case it’s better to get something than lose them for nothing — and they’re typically content to just rinse and repeat every year. They at least get credit for aiming big and signing Kris Bryant (which of course hasn’t worked out), but in most other offseasons they just sit on their hands and wait for spring training.
They still haven’t figured out what kind of pitchers play best in the ballpark they’ve been in for 30 years and their analytics staff is nonexistent. Nothing ever changes with them because they always promote from within, which is a good strategy for successful franchises but not for a team that urgently needs a new voice in the building. Groupthink is absolutely a thing, and unless the Rockies significantly change how they operate, I think they’ll be a 90-95 loss team until the end of the time.
It’s a shame because Coors Field is beautiful and they have good fans who still show up and deserve better than this. I don’t know if you can blame it all on Monfort, but since he’s the man at the top it all starts there.
They’re 29th in analytics dept. size.
denverpost.com/2023/09/28/rockies-farm-system-anal…
They got cool uniforms and an awesome stadium at least 🙂
No one will admit someone will be traded until they get that offer that makes them pull the trigger. They are never going to admit it in case it falls through, they don’t want to disrupt the team or player involved.
Just saw ol OF for Expos, Cards, n Astros Tony Scott passed away. Can’t believe I immediately remembered teams he played for frm my baseball cards as lil kid. Could play nice D in CF n had good wheels. RIP
The Rockies need to catch up to modern times and start investing in analytics. Rockies and White Sox are the smallest analytics departments in the league and it shows.
Looking at McMahon’s statcast page, some of this looks sustainable. Hitting the ball hard is always a good thing, and he’s managed to do that a bunch this year. I don’t know if he’ll maintain his .356 BABIP, because that’s largely based on luck, but it won’t matter too much as long as he keeps slugging. He did shave about 4-5 points off of his K% as well, which is also good especially since he’s maintaining his BB%. He might have made an adjustment to see the ball better.
He’s at the perfect time to be flipped for quality prospects. I just don’t think the Rockies will trade him when he’s probably at peak value.
They’ll either hang onto him for too long and get nothing, or they’ll deal him right now for a return package that’s far below what he’s actually worth. It’s The Rockies Way™️!
“Colorado held onto Trevor Story and Jon Gray when they were impending free agents a couple seasons ago; they did the same with Brent Suter last summer.”
And how has that worked out for them?
Negotiation tactics.
Rockies should be.
Maybe they’re being honest with themselves by realizing they stink at making good trades. They didn’t get much for Arenado a few years ago. There best trade was for Andres Galarraga. That’s been a few years.
It may have been done before, but how about a best/worst trade article for all 30 teams?
Andres Galarraga wasn’t even a trade. He was a free agent signing.
One of the things that the posters are missing is that the Rox have maintained their attendance. They averaged about 2.6M the past two years, though that seems to have weakened this year. It’s easier to stand pat when your revenue stream is not threatened.
There should never be a reason to choose not to compete.
That’s the difference between US sports as a socialist business model and the rest of the world where it’s dog eat dog eat dog and you have to win to survive relegation.
Hugely ironic of course, considering the socio-economic policies of the US compared to the rest of the developed world.
The Rockies are never likely to do anything that makes sense in creating a good team long term.
Why rock the boat when the revenue and attendance keeps staying strong? Rockies have a loyal fanbase.
Joke organization, but people keep going to the games and lining the owners pockets. Boycott games-
Unfortunately a boycott will never work. Read my post above on their attendance as to why.
Agree complete and total joke of an organization. I loved when Harper went off on the team after the benches cleared in 2023, calling them a SX$# organization with a loser owner that has no clue and they should all be embarassed for what a #$% show they are. I was right behind the Phillies dugout and heard it loud and clear.
Fans have been boycotting A’s games for at least a decade, if not longer. Take a wild guess as to how that’s going for them. It’s a catch 22 being a fan of a team that finds new ways to suck. Boycott them a bunch, and ownership simply refuses to invest and/or decides to move the team out of town citing low fan support. Keep tuning in, buying tickets, merchandise, etc., and you’re enabling ownership to keep doing the same stupid things with their team.
Stubborn and non-entertaining.
There’s a plane warming up…flight path Denver to Toronto…
Why would they change what they’ve been doing! It’s worked out so well over the years.
Trading him would make sense, so there’s your guarantee that the Rockies won’t.
If you were expecting anything different from the Rox, then I think you need to see someone so you lower your expectations a bit.
Death, taxes, and the rockies’ continued delusional belief that they’re on the cusp of being a contending team. Constants of the universe. Hell weather report: still not frozen over.