MLBTR's team-by-team look at the upcoming trade deadline continues with a look at the Colorado Rockies, who are on pace to break the 2024 White Sox' modern-day record for losses in a single season. General manager Bill Schmidt's club is on pace for a staggering 37 wins this season -- a mark that 23 of the game's 29 other clubs have already reached as of late June. The Rockies are a clear seller -- or at least, they should be. The Rox typically march to the beat of their own drum, however, and owner Dick Monfort seems particularly averse to any large-scale sell-offs.
Still, given the Rockies' historic futility in 2025, the expectation is that they'll move some veteran pieces, while the fan base's hope might be for an uncharacteristically active deadline on the sell side of things.
Record: 18-62 (0% playoff odds, per FanGraphs)
Other series entries: Giants, Phillies, Pirates, Astros, Marlins
Sell Mode
Impending free agents: Germán Márquez, Thairo Estrada, Austin Gomber, Kyle Farmer, Orlando Arcia
Márquez has been a pillar for the Rockies' staff since coming over in a 2015-16 offseason trade that sent outfielder Corey Dickerson to the Rays. The Rox have resisted trading him in the past, twice signing him to extensions. He's now in his first full season post-Tommy John surgery, earning $10MM. There'll be about $3.17MM of that sum yet to be paid out of as of deadline day. Márquez got out to an awful start but has turned in a 3.21 ERA in 47 2/3 innings over his past nine starts (though that includes six unearned runs in his last start against the Dodgers). His 17.6% strikeout rate in that span is nowhere near peak levels, but his command has been good and he's averaging better than 95 mph on his heater. Plenty of teams would look at Marquez's velocity and track record of missing bats and think they could turn him around further.
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No way they’re selling this year.
Their SP is awful. I thought Marquez and Doyle would be better. Why have a few nice pieces, but that offense needs so much help to help that terrible staff.
Franchise is worse than Benson Boone… They literally have no direction until they get out of the abysmal contracts of Marquez, Senzatela, Freeland, McMahon, and the black hole of Kris Bryant.
Hey, if they won every game the rest of the season, they would end up with 100 wins!!
I say they should go for it. BUY BUY BUY!
Colorado Team and deadline outlook in one word- Bleak.
Trade McMahon and Bird to the Mets for Mauricio and Tidwell, Mauricio becomes their 3b and Tidwell might be their Ace 😆, helps both teams the Mets get their 3b and bullpen help the Rockies gets out of McMahons contract with an inexpensive 3b
Now that McMahon is actually hitting, perhaps. Ryan Clifford instead of Mauricio.
McMahon’s contract is not that bad. He is getting $12MM this year and $16MM the next two. That is less than half of Alex Bregman’s deal and he is not the same player as Bregman, but he is not 50% of the player Bregman is either. McMahon is not a superstar, but he is still of the better 3B in the game especially on defense.
Is Hunter Goodman available?
Probably not
Marquez and Gomber have value in the fact that starting pitchers always have value. Doesn’t mean any top tier prospects are coming back but they may be able to land a few useful pieces for both of them