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Rockies Willing To Entertain Offers On Victor Vodnik, Seth Halvorsen

By Anthony Franco | July 25, 2025 at 8:52am CDT

The Rockies are willing to field offers on relievers Victor Vodnik and Seth Halvorsen, report Katie Woo and Will Sammon of The Athletic. Unsurprisingly, The Athletic notes that the Rox have a high asking price on both controllable power arms.

Vodnik and Halvorsen have been Colorado’s two highest-leverage bullpen options over the past month. They’re each 25-year-old righties with massive arm speed. Vodnik, acquired from the Braves at the 2023 deadline in the Pierce Johnson deal, averages 98.5 MPH on his fastball. Halvorsen, a seventh-round draft pick from two seasons ago, has a heater that sits above 100. Only Mason Miller and Jhoan Durán throw harder than he does.

Of the two, Vodnik has had more success. He tossed 73 2/3 innings of 4.28 ERA ball in his first full season last year. He missed five weeks earlier this season with shoulder inflammation but carries an even 3.00 earned run average in 30 frames. He has gotten ground balls at a huge 56.3% clip, though he has given up a lot of hard contact. Vodnik has also walked a concerning 13.4% of opposing hitters while turning in a league average 23.6% strikeout rate.

[Related: Under-The-Radar Bullpen Trade Candidates]

Vodnik’s underlying marks don’t support a low-3.00s ERA. At the same time, it’s easy to see the appeal of a pitcher with this kind of velocity and ability to generate ground balls. It’s a similar story with Halvorsen, who is working as the rebuilding team’s closer. He has gotten grounders at a 53.2% clip while posting middling strikeout (21.3%) and walk (11%) rates. Halvorsen has allowed a few too many home runs, leading to a pedestrian 5.02 ERA through 37 2/3 frames.

The Rockies are generally resistant to dealing players with multiple years of control, but reporting out of Colorado has suggested they’re more open to selling than in years past. That’s most relevant for third baseman Ryan McMahon but could apply to controllable relievers Jake Bird, Vodnik and Halvorsen.

Trading either of the latter two pitchers would have some parallels to last summer’s deal of Nick Mears — another controllable power arm with middling results — to Milwaukee. Mears was two years older than Halvorsen and Vodnik are now, and he’s a former waiver claim whom the Rockies could’ve been more willing to move than pitchers they’ve drafted or acquired in trade. Vodnik is under club control for four seasons after this one; Halvorsen has five-plus years of control.

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  1. mrkinsm

    2 months ago

    Alright Reds FO, Vodnik is the exact type of player you should be targeting – wiling to trade a prospect or two for – someone who can potentially play for you for multiple years before hitting FA. It shows your fans and the rest of the 26 man roster that you haven’t completely given up on the idea of squeaking into the playoffs this year.

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    • Big whiffa

      2 months ago

      Not sure where he fits in ? Reds have a decent bullpen and he’s not likely to replace any of the back end pieces. I like the idea but he’d have to work his way up the ladder over next couple seasons and prove it. Be hard to trade a sure fire prospect for a player like that. Who would you be willing to give up ?

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      • mrkinsm

        2 months ago

        What? He could replace half their current bullpen.

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        • mrkinsm

          2 months ago

          Next year’s Reds bullpen is Santillan, Ashcraft, Richardson, and maybe Suter and Mey. Everyone else currently in it could be gone. And of those five mentioned….no guarantee Suter, Mey or Richardson are in it either. Pagan and Rogers are FA’s, Barlow’s likely getting boughtout. Gibaut and Moll are likely nontenders.

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  2. Mets Era Thumping Soto

    2 months ago

    I get nervous trading for Rockie pitchers mid season. They often have to adjust how they pitch coming out of the thin air and need an adjustment time to adapt.

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    • sad tormented neglected mariners fan

      2 months ago

      Also I bet the Rockies teach them bad technique and that’s why they get bad or injured

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      • NashvilleJeff

        2 months ago

        @sad: Vodnik was drafted out of high school in 2018/14th round and developed by the Braves. Traded to the Rox in July 2023 along w/Tanner Gordon in exchange for Pierce Johnson. He only spent 2 months in the Rockies farm system before being promoted to the ML in September 2023.

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  3. RichP

    2 months ago

    I don’t understand how the Rockies will ever compete again, when it is constantly trading their higher end prospects?

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    • Rsox

      2 months ago

      I don’t really think Monfort is all that interested in actually competing. If it happens again it will be purely by accident like 2017-18

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      • sad tormented neglected mariners fan

        2 months ago

        Condon and Holliday could be their next tulowitski/holliday or Blackmon/arenado

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    • Mets Era Thumping Soto

      2 months ago

      If I were the Rockies I would heavily concentrate on getting premium hitting prospects in the draft and then get rid of the humidifier. Try to outscore everyone else. They never will develop premium pitching. They can get adequate pitching for Colorado on the open market gearing towards ground ball pitchers.

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  4. Supersc

    2 months ago

    The Rockies have never gone full rebuild, so they string along good players in a 90 to 120 loss season consistently.

    Perhaps the Rockies are looking ahead for a change, and if it means trading away current MLB players to stock up for a run in 2027 or 2028, or 2128, this would be a welcome change to business as usual.

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  5. StudWinfield

    2 months ago

    Vodnik? Halvorsen? For a moment I thought I clicked on a Nordic European football site.

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    • Rsox

      2 months ago

      While both sound like they could be players for the Colorado Avalanche i assure you they play Baseball…

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  6. AHH-Rox

    2 months ago

    Victor Vodnik could be a comrade of Boris Badenov.

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    • Bill M

      2 months ago

      Maybe he’ll be traded to the Mets to be with the Flying Squirrel.

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