E.L. wrote:
Sorry situation in Denver. Beautiful park, fans deserve better. Bridich early on actually got some solid results and seemed to figure out the Rockies' pitching conundrum. But he'll be known for alienating his stars, blowing stacks in free agency and squandering a talented young rotation.
And with the NL West shaping up to be a juggernaut at the top, with the Giants and DBacks playing scrappy baseball for the last Wild Card, the Rox look like they'll be bottom feeders for the foreseeable future.
Could a new GM convince Story to stay? Any point?
Naw, if he knows what's good for him, he's gonna find more money and more success elsewhere.
The, um, somewhat good news is that Monfort is willing to spend, the problem is he'll only go as far as it's good for business. He let Bridich spend millions on innumerable free agents who promptly came in and stunk. Ian Desmond may have been the worst player in baseball during his time in CO, and the experience along with the pandemic so utterly broke him that he opted out both last year and this year, the final two seasons of his awful contract. Bridich was also allowed to spend tens of millions on one of the worst bullpens in baseball--completely undermining what good he did with the starting rotation. Monfort just cared that the Rox kept making money, he didn't care that both he and Dan O'Dud were egregiously incompetent GMs who treated Coors Field like it was the enemy.