The Last Piece Of The Colorado Rockies’ Ubaldo Jimenez Trade Has Washed Up
By Bobby DeMuro
Apr 1, 2015; Salt River Pima-Maricopa, AZ, USA; Colorado Rockies left fielder M. McBride (7) catches a ball hit by Texas Rangers left fielder S. Choo (not pictured) during the third inning at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports
Everybody lost this trade
So does all this mean the Rockies lost the Ubaldo trade, especially now that we’ve seen McBride do nothing on top of the already-well-documented failures of White and Pomeranz? Well… kind of “yes,” and kind of “that’s not a fair thing to say of McBride.”
I’d argue both the Rockies and the Indians lost the Ubaldo trade. Neither team got what they expected in the deal, and McBride’s third-time-through struggles only highlight it right now, four years and a month after the trade was completed. This happens in trades, of course. There are sometimes two winners, sometimes two losers, and all this happens when you trade human beings between organizations.
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The other thing to remember here is that none of this is McBride’s fault. He wasn’t supposed to, like, make up for Ubaldo himself, or something. Pomeranz failed in Denver, White washed out, and Gardner never clicked. It wasn’t on McBride alone.
Now that McBride is up with the Colorado Rockies — again — and he’s not hitting for the Rockies — again — it made something click in my mind about how he (the last member of the deal still with the original trade club!) is the last failure of a pretty crappy trade for both teams.
Eh. It happens.