There is no doubting the credentials of Rockies interim general manager Bill Schmidt.
After spending parts of five decades in the game as either a coach, scout or front office executive, one cannot argue Schmidt’s baseball bonafides.
That being said, he sure did cause a stir earlier this week when he told The Post’s Patrick Saunders, “We are not a farm system for other people.”
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Let’s begin by saying one thing first:
Schmidt deserves credit for showing a reporter the courtesy of fielding questions a few weeks prior to an MLB trade deadline that’s likely to end with shortstop Trevor Story leaving LoDo.