Colorado Rockies: Jon Gray is not the only one at fault

In his first season as manager, in 2015, Bridich traded LaTroy Hawkins and the Rockies franchise player, Troy Tulowitzki, for Jesus Tinoco, Miguel Castro, Jeff Hoffman, and Jose Reyes. Only Tinoco and Hoffman are still in the Rockies organization.

Tinoco is 18-20 with a 5.55 ERA between Single-A, Advanced-A, Double-A. Hoffman has had limited success in the majors thus far between parts of three seasons (including this year).

Tulo has been injured for most of his tenure with the Blue Jays but I think that it’s safe to say that, as of now, neither team has been successful with that trade.

He drafted Brendan Rodgers in the 2015 draft so, obviously, the jury is still out on that. There are some players in that draft who came after Rodgers that have been successful in the majors already but they have all been college players and Rodgers was not, as he was in high school.

Bridich also traded away Tommy Kahnle for Yency Almonte. Kahnle has struggled this year but in 2016 and 2017, he had an ERA of 2.60 in 98 games split between the White Sox and Yankees.

Betwen 2015 and 2016, Jason Motte signed as a free agent and that didn’t work out (4.94 ERA). He also signed Chad Qualls, who also didn’t work out (5.29 ERA).

He did sign Mark Reynolds, which was a pretty good signing (2.4 WAR in two seasons).

He also traded Corey Dickerson for German Marquez and Jake McGee, which was a pretty good trade.

He later picked up Tony Wolters off waivers from the Indians.