Colorado Rockies: The Best and Worst Stories of 2016

Colorado’s Worst Story…

For the worst Colorado story of 2016, we’re looking right at you, Jose Reyes.

One of the biggest reasons that Story was competing for the starting shortstop job in spring training was that Reyes, who was acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays in the Troy Tulowitzki deal, wasn’t in Arizona with the team.

Reyes was arrested by police in Maui on Halloween and charged with abusing a family/household member after allegedly assaulting his wife in their hotel room. If you need to know the rest of the story, you can click here to read about it. As I said in this editorial, when they finally jettisoned him, it was good riddance for the Rockies.

Reyes was a player who made it clear from his first moments in Colorado that he didn’t want to be here. The specter of his domestic assault issues hung over the Rockies not only in spring training, but through much of the first two-plus months of the season. Finally, on June 15, Reyes was released by the Rockies.

Even though he’s no longer on the Rockies roster, he is still on the payroll. He is due $22 million this season alone. That makes him, at the moment, the highest-paid player on the payroll.

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What’s one of the best things about Colorado’s calendar turning to 2017? We can officially say that Reyes had no impact whatsoever on the team, other than his paycheck.