As Major League Baseball moved out of the lockout and into the 2022 season, one of the bigger questions for the Rockies was who was going to fill the hole in the lineup and at short left by the imminent departure of Trevor Story. In a narrative that we’ve all heard plenty of times, the last time the Rockies had an everyday shortstop not named Story or Tulowitzki was 2006.
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It took new GM Bill Schmidt just three days after the lockout ended to find the answer to at least one of those questions.