{"id":517836,"date":"2026-01-13T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517836\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:16:12","slug":"which-additional-free-agent-starter-might-the-rockies-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517836\/","title":{"rendered":"Which additional free agent starter might the Rockies sign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve played out scenarios where we would attempt to bring in two guys who can stabilize that area [emphasis added] &#8212; who can not only pitch well but know how to give us some bulk innings, which any team needs,\u201d Byrnes said. \u201cThat\u2019s probably how we\u2019re trying to map it out. There is a lot of unknown with what pops up in trades or free agency, but we need to add in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Pitchers have so rarely chosen to pitch in Colorado\u2019s taxing and hitter-friendly altitude that recent front offices all but swore off chasing free agents. But Byrnes said early feedback suggests pitchers are more willing to listen than has been believed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere are different tiers of free agency,\u201d Byrnes said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of interesting, without naming names. But with guys on shorter deals, I think there\u2019s some intrigue. Everyone around the game knows it\u2019s harder to pitch in Colorado, but I think a couple of guys want to take on that challenge, and we\u2019ve brought in a pitching group that will turn over every rock to get at it and solve this thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve played out scenarios where we would attempt to bring in two guys who can stabilize that area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,12123,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-517836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-purple-row-community","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115886095320032296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}