Not only has Ian Desmond not lived up to his big contract, as our friends at Purple Row recently pointed out with this year’s struggles, which compound lower-than-expected numbers from past seasons, but let’s not forget that, because of that qualifying offer, the Colorado Rockies had to surrender a first-round pick to the Rangers as part of signing Desmond.
With Desmond’s struggles, I decided to look at how the draft pick the Rockies gave up for Desmond is doing in his quest to reach Major League Baseball.
Using the 29th overall pick in the 2017 draft (as compensation for losing Desmond), the Rangers selected shortstop Chris Seise from West Orange (Fla.