{"id":551670,"date":"2026-02-03T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551670\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:56:13","slug":"colorado-rockies-after-dark-whos-a-player-whose-rockies-career-you-wish-wasnt-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551670\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies After Dark: Who\u2019s a player whose Rockies career you wish wasn\u2019t cut short?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yesterday in The Feed, porter_engle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/post\/3tg8iLSAzhpP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked <\/a>the question \u201cName the Rockies draft pick you wish had turned out better.\u201d They then identified Kyle Hancock as their pick, and asked the community to weigh in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019d like to spin that off this evening in the form of a different question:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who\u2019s a player whose Rockies career you wish wasn\u2019t cut short, either due to injuries, being traded\/released, walking in free agency, etc.?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For me, it\u2019s always going to be Troy Tulowitzki. He was my first favorite Rockie, and he was on a potential Hall of Fame trajectory if his entire baseball career wasn\u2019t marred by injuries. And then, of course, he was also traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, which left a sour taste in everyone\u2019s mouth for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday in The Feed, porter_engle asked the question \u201cName the Rockies draft pick you wish had turned out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551671,"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-551670","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\/116004925233608132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551670","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=551670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}