Mason Adams

I think the Rockies have to add at least a pitcher.

as they really only have Mason Adams and Ryan Feltner, Tanner Gordon, all as your options right now.

And so it'll be really interesting to see if the Rockies do end up maybe trying to be aggressive on a trade and move on from some of these log jammed outfielders that they have.

I was about to say there's a lot of outfielders in Atlanta.

Maybe between the two of them, they can get five to six quality innings to get to a young Rockies bullpen.

I think the Rockies have to add at least a pitcher as they really only have Mason Adams and Ryan Feltner, Tanner Gordon, all as your options right now.

And so it'll be really interesting to see if the Rockies do end up maybe trying to be aggressive on a trade and move on from some of these log jammed outfielders that they have.

I was about to say there's a lot of outfielders, and Atlanta has a lot of uncertainty there.

Yeah, and I do think we've talked about this a little bit, but I think where they invested the most of their either trades or mostly trades, but just like free agent signing and trades is guys that we actually did see in September.

and already made the Major League Club, but I think that's where the guys that we theoretically would be excited about if they were still in AAA, but they've actually made their debuts at the Major League roster, and I'm talking guys like Mason Adams, Mark Manfredi, Nick Frasso, those kind of guys, like, yeah, Manfredi and Frasso are bullpen type of arms, but...

If they end up being late bullpen arms, you can get excited about them, right? Like, you're not going to get...

As much as you need them to win a World Series and win games, nobody's going to get excited about a fifth-inning guy, a sixth-inning guy, right? Like, those aren't the guys that move the needle.

Yeah, and I think to that point, I mean, like Josh Burns and Paul DePedestra with some of the trades that they've made, you know, we've seen impact already at the big league level.

Mason Adams, you know, like certain guys that have – they trade for and we're getting a return, you know.

Right.

So it's starting there.

Tanner Gordon, if you're looking at like their top AAA guys is fine.

Mason Adams probably fits in there.

McCade Brown, he's also going to return from

injury.

Yeah, and whether or not, like you said, we can't even remotely guess individual names, but they know, the coaches know, and the rest of the staff know, along with the front office, what Alon Leichman's philosophy was right like that we don't like and we can get very you can dive into all the pitch mixes and the pitch types and all splitters work at Coors Field or sinker ballers work or get flamethrowers work at Coors Field you can dive into all those and probably find numbers that would support one theory or the other I just know that they thought enough of Alon Leishman's current philosophy to say you are not the guy that's going to help us fix this we got to let you go We have no more time to waste here in terms of the development because the important part is the development piece of this.

The Rockies this year, you know, you wonder how much coaching went into guys like Michael Lorenzen, Jose Quintana, and Tommy Kishigana who have been major leaguers for a decade, right? But now it gets to more important into coaching is always important, but the Rockies, it's even more important because every guy right now, you know, they're going to go sign some vets at some point you would imagine to fill out the starting rotation, right? But the Mason Adams and the McCade Browns and the Sean Sullivans, if you want to throw that in there, all of those guys are borderline major leaguers, but they haven't had their feet set in stone at the major league level.

So the coaching part is really important for the Rockies with such a young roster and with pitchers that you just traded for, or just acquired, or you've brought up through your system that you need them to either figure out if they're going to be major leaguers or not.

That's when the coaching piece really comes into effect.

The rotation is a mixed bag.

Kyle Freeland, Tomoyuki Sagano, Gabriel Hughes, Tanner Gordon, Ryan Feltner, Sean Sullivan, Blake Adams, Mason Adams.

That's eight starters.

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