Trumbo-Castillo-Leone Trade Impacts Colorado Rockies’ Summer Plans

Now that Trumbo is with the Mariners, the Colorado Rockies may have missed out on unloading an outfielder. Mandatory Credit: Jennifer Buchanan-USA TODAY Sports

The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Mark Trumbo to the Seattle Mariners for, among others, catcher Wellington Castillo. That will impact the Colorado Rockies.

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As you’ve probably seen, the Arizona Diamondbacks just traded Mark Trumbo to the Seattle Mariners along with Vidal Nuno, for relief pitcher Dominic Leone and catcher Wellington Castillo.

The Diamondbacks’ hand was forced when starting catcher Tuffy Gosewisch went down with an injury, and the club needed another catcher immediately, in addition to the fact that they had a logjam in the outfield with guys like Ender Inciarte and David Peralta, as well as Yasmany Tomas proving to be a less-than-ideal third baseman who might need to move to left field.

All that is more of a Dbacks-and-Mariners issue, but it might end up impacting the Rockies, who have a surplus of outfielders when healthy, including several big league-capable guys at AAA Albuquerque.

Remember, much of last season and over the winter, the Mariners were connected to Drew Stubbs, before Stubbs stopped hitting. He won’t be the guy going to Seattle, anyways, but now that the M’s have another outfielder, there’s no need for them to come calling in Denver. (At least… not for an outfielder… but this won’t be a “Tulo trade rumor” post so let’s contain ourselves.)

The Diamondbacks, too, lost a catcher. Hey, we have an extra catcher, take this guy Wilin Rosario, we’ll get something decent in return for him! Er… not any more.

Look, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies most likely aren’t going to do a deal within the division (never say never, the Padres acquired Matt Kemp, but it’d be very unlikely). And now that the Mariners have another outfield bat, they’d have no reason to acquire Carlos Gonzalez, certainly not Drew Stubbs, nor whomever else might’ve struck their fancy in the Rockies’ organization.

It’s worth keeping an eye on trades around the league – specifically for catchers, designated hitters, outfielders, first basemen, and shortstops — since those are arguably the positions at which the Rockies could do deals.

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As teams acquire players at those spots throughout the league, options the Rockies have to trade guys like Carlos Gonzalez, Justin Morneau, Drew Stubbs, Troy Tulowitzki, or whomever else you think might be on the way out become smaller and smaller.

(And that says nothing of the value each one of those Rockies on the trading block would even get in return, to begin with, of course.)