{"id":711777,"date":"2026-05-29T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711777\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:39:29","slug":"rockies-move-jose-quintana-to-60-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711777\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Move Jose Quintana To 60-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies announced they\u2019ve transferred starter\u00a0Jose Quintana<\/a> to the 60-day injured list. He\u2019d been placed on the 15-day IL on Monday with an elbow sprain. Today\u2019s move creates a 40-man roster spot for Jeff Criswell<\/a>, who has been reinstated from the 60-day IL. He\u2019ll remain at Triple-A Albuquerque on optional assignment.<\/p>\n

Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a> reports that Quintana is expected to avoid surgery. However, a sprain by definition indicates there\u2019s some amount of stretching and\/or tearing to the ligament. The immediate IL transfer rules him out for at least two months. Quintana won\u2019t be back until late July at the earliest.<\/p>\n

That probably takes him off the summer trade market. Colorado signed Quintana to a one-year, $6MM deal just before Spring Training. They hoped he\u2019d raise the floor in an historically bad rotation while pitching well enough to be a deadline trade candidate. Quintana was never going to bring back a significant prospect but could plausibly have gotten them a low minors lottery ticket or two if he were pitching well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s theoretically possible that Quintana could return at the 60-day mark and start one or two games before the August 3 deadline. Even in that case, it\u2019s unlikely he\u2019d show enough to be a target for a contender. Quintana has only completed six innings once in his nine starts this year. He has a 5.27 ERA with a career-low 11% strikeout rate while averaging less than 90 mph on his fastball.<\/p>\n

Making a second half return would be more important for the veteran southpaw personally. Assuming he wants to continue playing beyond this season, he\u2019ll need an impressive final month or two to give himself a chance at securing another major league deal. The Rockies are also without\u00a0Chase Dollander<\/a> and\u00a0Ryan Feltner<\/a>, though the latter might be back as early as Saturday.<\/p>\n

Criswell underwent Tommy John surgery in Spring Training 2025. The Michigan product had pitched pretty well in a small sample debut at the tail end of the \u201924 season. His stuff has looked good on a rehab assignment, and he has fanned 12 hitters in his first 6 2\/3 frames with Albuquerque. They\u2019ll let him continue working against Triple-A hitters but could bring him back to the MLB level at any point now that he\u2019s back on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies announced they\u2019ve transferred starter\u00a0Jose Quintana to the 60-day injured list. He\u2019d been placed on the 15-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7904,131],"class_list":["post-711777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-jeff-criswell","tag-jose-quintana"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116657203647491732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711777","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=711777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}