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Grading the Week: Before Rockies can be MLB’s farm system, they’ll have to build their own first

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.”

Bill Schmidt — C

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.