Colorado Rockies Quick Hits: LeMahieu, Dodgers, Bridich, Bullpen, Hall of Fame

This weekend, there have been a few things regarding the Colorado Rockies and their division rivals in the news.

According to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, one of the teams that was in on Rockies free agent second baseman DJ LeMahieu was the Tampa Bay Rays. LeMahieu ended up signing with the Rays divisional rival, the New York Yankees, who seem to be loving former Rockies lately as they have signed Troy Tulowitzki, LeMahieu, and Adam Ottavino in recent weeks. In addition to the Rays and Yankees, the Giants and Nationals expressed interest in LeMahieu (as we reported in these two articles) as well as the Dodgers and Twins in this article. In that article as well, we noted that the Rockies did not express much interest in bringing him back.

On Saturday, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported on Twitter that one of the Rockies divisional rival’s, the Dodgers, free agent targets is former Diamondbacks outfielder A.J. Pollock. You may remember that last season, the Dodgers had a slew of outfielders including Matt Kemp, Yasiel Puig, Joc Pederson, Chris Taylor, Enrique Hernandez, Alex Verdugo. Cody Bellinger, and Andrew Toles (and those are only the players that had at least 10 games played in the outfield). However, this offeason, they have traded Kemp and Puig to Cincinnati so their outfield depth is not as deep as it used to be.

Speaking of the Dodgers outfield, Rosenthal also

reported on Twitter

on Sunday that the Dodgers are in talks with the Chicago White Sox that would send Pederson to Chicago. He also reports that other clubs “are in conversations” but those clubs are not known, at least as of yet.

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Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post spoke to Rockies general manager Jeff Bridich after the Yankees signed the aforementioned Adam Ottavino. Saunders reports that the Rockies “kept in touch with him during the offseason but never offered him a contract.” Saunders texted Bridich asking him why no contract was extending to him and Bridich dodged the question by replying that the Rockies wish him the best besides when the Yankees face the Rockies (as they will in July). As Saunders surmised and I would concur with, the Rockies probably just don’t have enough money to go around, especially if they are going to seriously chase

Nolan Arenado

for an extension/in free agency. As Bridich said at the Winter Meeting in December, “We need last year’s [free agent signings] to pitch better than they did in 2018. It’s not a lack of talent or a sudden inability to perform well. But they need to do a better job…The bottom line is that if Bryan [Shaw] and Jake [McGee] and Chris [Rusin] pitch to their abilities, we are most likely a very different sort of a bullpen…”

What a Nolan Arenado trade to the Yankees could look like. dark. Next

The 2019 Hall of Fame results will be announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame’s President Jeff Idelson on MLB Network on Tuesday. Their coverage will start at 1 PM MT and the announcement will come at 4 PM MT. Stay tuned for our coverage of the announcement as the results as well to see former Rockies Larry Walker and Todd Helton do this season as Walker is on his penultimate ballot and Helton, his first of a maximum of ten ballots.

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