Colorado Rockies draft history: Who could have been Rockies in 1992?

The Colorado Rockies didn’t do well with their 1992 second round draft pick either.

In the second round, the Colorado Rockies drafted pitcher Mark Thompson out of the University of Kentucky. He pitched in parts of seven seasons in the majors (five with the Rockies) but in 94 games (52 starts), he had a 5.74 ERA and a 0.0 rWAR.

He was drafted after future Colorado Rockies first basemen Todd Helton (drafted by the Padres) and Jason Giambi (drafted by Oakland). The Rockies, realistically, could have drafted one of them in the first round. Helton didn’t sign with the Padres but last July, we examined the possibility of him being a member of the Padres.

In the third round of the draft, the Rockies drafted pitcher Roger Bailey. Bailey pitched in parts of three seasons in the majors (all with the Rockies) but of all of the third round picks, his 5.2 rWAR was the highest.

The Rockies drafted a pitcher (notice the trend?) by the name of Lloyd Peever in the fourth round. Peever never made it to the majors but nobody in that round had an rWAR above 0.3 in their career.

In the fifth round, the Rockies drafted third baseman Ryan Freeburg, their first position player of the draft but he never got above Advanced-A ball. The best MLB player by rWAR in that round was backup MLB catcher Doug Mirabelli, who is best known to be the personal catcher for Tim Wakefield in Boston because of his knuckleball.