What the chucklenuts up in the Grading The Week office love about Bill Schmidt’s Rockies moves is the club’s ability — or is it the hope? — to see the good in anything. Take Cal Quantrill, who must’ve seriously ticked off somebody in the Cleveland front office to wind up getting shipped to Colorado on Friday for an A-ball catcher.
As a lottery ticket, was it worth a flyer for the pitching-starved Purple? Sure. Schmidt and the Rockies can sell this as giving up almost nada for a smart (ex-Stanford), courteous (he’s Canadian) veteran (he’ll be 29 next February) starter to fill out a rotation that got completely nuked by injuries last summer.