There’s been a lot of movement in the baseball world recently with the trade deadline and the MLB Draft happening in July. The Colorado Rockies acquired a handful of new prospects in both the draft and via trade, highlighted by 18-year-old infielder Ethan Holliday, the club’s first-round selection with the fourth overall pick.
MLB Pipeline redid its list of the league’s top 100 prospects along with each club’s top 30 prospects. For the team on Blake Street that calls themselves an MLB team, they still had just two players crack the top 100 despite selling at the deadline for a handful of young guns.
Holliday slotted in at No. 17 on the list while Charlie Condon, who just represented the Rockies in the MLB All-Star Futures game in Atlanta back in July, was ranked 60th.
For a team that just traded away a fair amount of talent at the deadline and is one of the worst teams in the history of baseball, shouldn’t they have more talent on the squad? The 2025 season will be their third straight year losing at least 100 games and their seventh straight year missing the postseason. Rebuilding teams in all sports are supposed to have some bright spot in the future, but there isn’t a whole lot there for the Rockies in their farm system. Most of their top young guys are already on the roster and learning how to play major league ball via trial by fire.
At the deadline, the Rockies acquired 2B Roc Riggio, RHP Josh Grosz, LHP Griffin Herring, LHP Ben Shields and RHP Austin Smith. The first three are ranked at No. 9, No. 13 and No. 24 in the team’s system, not the entire league, while the latter two didn’t crack the club’s top-30. Not exactly a great return, especially given that one of the pieces the Rockies shipped out of Denver was fan-favorite 3B Ryan McMahon.
Don’t worry, Walker Monfort said that he’s just as frustrated as Rockies fans that the team isn’t winning, but the work he and the rest of the front office have done since then haven’t exactly reflected an organization that wants to turn things around. Instead, it’s reflected a group of people at the top who want more money in their pockets from rooftop beer deals and a sold out stadium at the hands of the Savannah Bananas.
At this point, it seems that the Rockies’ only hope is for the MLB to implement a salary cap in 2027, something that would most likely cause a massive lockout, as the players want to make as much money as possible. A salary cap is the only thing that would keep them in the same stratosphere as the Dodgers, but with a small pool of talent in the farm system, it still probably wouldn’t be enough.
