{"id":98870,"date":"2025-06-12T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/98870\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:29:11","slug":"rockies-to-activate-austin-gomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/98870\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies To Activate Austin Gomber"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies will reinstate lefty Austin Gomber<\/a> from the 60-day injured list this weekend, reports<\/a> Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post. He\u2019ll start Sunday\u2019s game in Atlanta, where he\u2019ll take on reigning Cy Young winner Chris Sale<\/a>. The Rox announced that Carson Palmquist<\/a>, who\u2019d been in line to start that game, was optioned to Triple-A today. Righty Anthony Molina<\/a> was recalled from Triple-A, adding another arm to the \u2019pen in the meantime. Colorado will need to make a 40-man roster move to reinstate Gomber prior to Sunday\u2019s start.<\/p>\n

Gomber, 31, will make his season debut when he takes the mound Sunday. He\u2019s been out all year due to a left shoulder injury but has looked sharp in four Triple-A rehab starts, tossing a dozen innings with three runs allowed on six hits and five walks. He\u2019s fanned 13 of 48 opponents along the way.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Gomber tossed a career-high 165 innings over the course of 30 starts, working to a 4.75 ERA. His 16.7% strikeout rate was well shy of the 22% league average, but his 5.5% walk rate was quite strong. Gomber struggled with home runs, as one would expect for a fly-ball pitcher who\u2019s prone to hard contact and plays his home games at Coors Field; he yielded an average of nearly two homers per nine frames at home and a total of 1.64 HR\/9 on the season overall.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fifth starter\u2019s profile, but the pitching-starved Rockies valued his durability and tendered Gomber a contract that pays him $6.35MM in his final year of club control. He\u2019ll be a free agent at season\u2019s end and, if he can get out to a decent start to his 2025 campaign, could end up as a trade chip for the Rox ahead of next month\u2019s deadline as well. Colorado traditionally tends to avoid trading away too many veterans even in non-contending seasons, but at 12-55 with a -202 run differential, there are no delusions of a second-half run. Shipping out Gomber won\u2019t bring much of a return, prospect-wise, but at the very least they\u2019d trim some payroll and add some depth to the minor league ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies will reinstate lefty Austin Gomber from the 60-day injured list this weekend, reports Patrick Saunders of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[4707,5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-98870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-austin-gomber","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-rockies","12":"tag-coloradorockies","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114671816933666810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98870","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=98870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}