The Colorado Rockies have officially pulled off the most Colorado Rockies move of all

After all of the trade rumors and possible fits for Colorado Rockies players Trevor Story, Jon Gray, C.J. Cron, Daniel Bard, and Mychal Givens, the Colorado Rockies traded exactly one of them: Mychal Givens.

Nearly two weeks ago, we made the case that the Colorado Rockies were about to pull off the most Rockies move of all and they have done it. Buster Olney of ESPN put it most succinctly on Twitter: Value squandered, again.

The Colorado Rockies’ problem wasn’t necessarily that they didn’t trade him today.

The Colorado Rockies’ problem wasn’t necessarily that they didn’t trade Trevor Story or others today. The problem is that nobody knows what their plan is.

Jon Gray could easily be extended. If he’s in the rotation and the Rockies starting rotation is healthy, the Rockies have a good rotation. The problem is that they didn’t maximize their trade value on Trevor Story. That would have come after their dismal 2019 season.

We never will know what trade offers the Rockies had on the table and whether or not they will be worth more than the compensation pick that they will get this offseason. But we do know that Trevor Story’s trade value has diminished since the 2019 offseason because the acquiring team had less team control.

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It should be noted that Story was a comp pick himself when the Rockies got a comp pick for reliever Octavio Dotel leaving the team in free agency.

But the Colorado Rockies pulled off the most Colorado Rockies move of all in that fans are wondering what in the world the Rockies are doing.

In the baseball world, being stuck in the middle is the worst place to be. Buyers are buyers (e.g. the Dodgers and Yankees this year), sellers are sellers trying to build for the future (e.g. the Cubs), the teams in the middle mean that fans don’t know what is happening.

Did the Colorado Rockies fall asleep at the wheel? Did they truly get poor trade offers? Did the Rockies overvalue their players? Do the Rockies think they are a competitive team, as the team has indicated this past offseason and still recently? We’ll get some answers from interim general manager Bill Schmidt shortly and will post an article after a conference call with him.

When fans are left in the dark as long as Rockies fans have in this era of Rockies baseball on top of being left in the dark by the team’s front office in years and decades past, fans automatically don’t give the front office the benefit of the doubt. Some teams and people earn the benefit of the doubt, but the Rockies and their front office have not earned it.

Until fans get a clear look at what the team is doing when the Rockies take action on their team, they will see the regression of trust in the team, a trust that has been regressing more and more with each passing year.