Pair of prospects who would be short stops with the Rockies

Uncertainty at shortstop is uncharted territory for Rockies. Troy Tulowitzki he held the position for nearly a decade, including a few seasons in which he was among the best position players in the sport. Colorado traded Tulowitzki to the Toronto Blue Jays in the middle of the 2015 campaign, but they had a well-respected replacement waiting in the wings.

the famed Trevor Story he burst onto the major league scene with six home runs in his first four MLB games in April 2016. Essentially from then on, the position was his:

Aside from a strikeout-fueled slump in his second season, Story offered solid production to more on both sides of the ball during his time in Denver. Colorado’s most recent Opening Day shortstop not named Tulowitzki or Story? Clint Barmes, in 2006.

For the first time in a while, the Roxes now have a real question mark at shortstop. The story hit free agency. The club has tagged him with a qualifying offer and expressed some hope in a meeting, but there is no indication that will happen. Assuming Story doesn’t return after the lockout, where could the Rockies go from here?

Unlike after Tulowitzki’s departure, Colorado doesn’t appear to have a minor league replacement ready to step in. Only two of the top 10 prospects in the farm system, according to Baseball America, are shortstops. One of them, the Venezuelan Ezequiel Tovar, is 20 years old and finished the 2021 campaign in Class A Alta.

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The other, Dominican Adael Amador, is 18 years old and has yet to advance to full-season ball. So the Rockies will either need to move one of their current major leaguers up the defensive spectrum or replace Story off the shelf.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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