{"id":672013,"date":"2026-04-09T23:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:54:42","slug":"tj-rumfields-start-giving-rockies-edge-in-trade-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672013\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Rumfield&#8217;s start giving Rockies edge in trade with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies aren\u2019t exactly known as MLB\u2019s best-run franchise. But they seem to be getting the better of their deals with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>The trade where the Yankees sent 1B TJ Rumfield to Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/28\/sports\/yankees-get-hard-throwing-angel-chivilli-in-trade-with-rockies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for right-hander Angel Chivilli<\/a> isn\u2019t looking great, as Rumfield is starring early.<\/p>\n<p>Word is, Yankees analytics people didn\u2019t love Rumfield, a former 12th-rounder of the Phillies. After winning a Rockies job with a .913 OPS in spring, Rumfield has a 1.037 OPS. (Chivilli started with four shutout innings at Triple-A.)<\/p>\n<p>Previous deals with the woeful Rockies for Jake Bird and even Ryan McMahon aren\u2019t looking like big hits yet, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies aren\u2019t exactly known as MLB\u2019s best-run franchise. But they seem to be getting the better of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,62,877,168,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-672013","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-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-paul-skenes","15":"tag-rockies","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116377450981157821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672013","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=672013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}