The reality is this: Unless the Rockies can improve their starting pitching this winter, they face another long, hot, discouraging summer in 2024.
General manager Bill Schmidt has already made one significant move, acquiring right-hander Cal Quantrill in a trade with the Cleveland Guardians last month. But there are so many holes to fill, searching for pitching will top the Rockies’ to-do list when Major League Baseball’s winter meetings begin Monday in Nashville.
But the team just might have a partial solution already on its roster in 26-year-old right-hander Peter Lambert, who’d become something of a forgotten man until he flashed promise in the second half of the 2023 season.