With the trade deadline behind us, contending teams are going to start looking to their short-term rentals to lead them to the playoffs and hopefully onto the World Series. Who could forget the deadline trade of Johnny Cueto from the Reds to the Royals last year? Cueto pitched well leading the 2015 Royals to baseball’s promised land. Now? He’s pitching for the Giants, hoping to capitalize on San Francisco’s even-year magic to a second straight title.
While the Colorado Rockies haven’t exactly been in a position to buy a rental player in their short 23-year existence, they have certainly had their share of players that you forgot donned the purple pinstripes at one point in their careers.