Colorado Rockies: 5 interesting Winter Meetings quotes from Jeff Bridich

"“Especially now, November-December-January, there’s a lot of, ‘Hey, look. If you’d ever think about … I don’t know what your goals are. I’m not going to tell you what you should do, but if you guys ever get to a point where you think the right thing is to move a Trevor Story, you think the right thing is to move a Nolan Arenado, you think the right thing is move Charlie Blackmon, you think the right thing is to move [German] Marquez….’ Cherry pick, you know, the best players on the team … ‘Make sure we’re a part of that conversation. Don’t leave us out. Don’t just go do something crazy without us.’ “Typically with those guys, we don’t start those conversations.”"

Translation: Teams are always going to ask about players and the direction of a franchise. Does it mean the Rockies are trading any of their core players any time soon? Absolutely not, but you would be naive to think that teams aren’t putting in their feelers for “what ifs” and “what might happens” down the road.

Bridich went on to say that, “I can’t sit here and so, ‘No, never, ever.’ Some of this stuff started back at the Trade Deadline and it’s kind of ongoing.” This is where the rumors are generated. Can he definitely say he would never trade any of his core players? No. Does that mean he is actively shopping them? No.