Hey, let’s talk about ANOTHER PITCHER in the ongoing series I’m spearheading for Purple Row about free agents that the Colorado Rockies could/should/would/might attract this winter!
Obviously, things get a little bit repetitive when you’re talking about a LOT of free agent pitchers here, and there, and everywhere — Lord knows I’ve written a LOT of pitcher posts in the last two or three weeks — but, hey, it’s what the Rockies need and so it’s what we do.
Ian Kennedy isn’t, like, the best fit ever, but this is the crux of the argument:
Regardless of what you or I may think about risk, Jeff Bridich is on the record leaving his options open to sign a pitcher attached to a qualifying offer. While giving up a good draft pick for a soon-to-be 31-year-old pitcher may be too steep a price to pay (not to mention the actual contract value), Bridich may look at it the other way—or, hell, he’s running interference on his own ideas in his quotes to the media, and keeping the actual plan close to the vest.
Kennedy will command north of $10 million a year in salary wherever he goes this winter, though at least he will be cheaper than Mike Leake and Wei-Yin Chen. The question for the Rockies, then, is whether they value a mid-rotation arm who pitches well at Coors Field and in the NL West more than they want a draft pick that may not pay dividends for several years, if at all.
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