Should the Colorado Rockies pursue Max Scherzer in free agency?

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Against it: Don’t trust this front office

As we indulge the unlikely possibility of the Rockies signing a guy like Scherzer, this is the most important point of all. In order for this to be an acceptable plan, the Rockies have to be thinking two or three steps ahead down the road.

They need to be considering how they can maximize the value of this deal around years three and four. For example, let’s say it is year three of the imaginary Scherzer era in Colorado. Let’s also say that he is still an effective, top of the rotation guy, but not necessarily the elite ace for whom the Rockies overpaid in the first place.

At that point, regardless of whether the Rockies are buyers or sellers or contenders or basement dwellers, they would be wise to look for a pitching-needy team, perhaps even a big market pitching-needy team, and try to execute a trade. Maybe they would end up absorbing some money on the back end to do so, but to think ahead to that sort of proactive move has to be part of this plan if ever it becomes a plan.

Does anybody out there trust this Rockies’ front office to approach their business that way? Anybody?

Someday the Rockies might be positioned to pursue a guy like Scherzer, as suggested by Bowden and discussed here. But that time isn’t now, and it will only arrive when the state of the franchise is different and when the men in charge are more forward-thinking than the current regime.

That might not be for a long, looooong time.

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