Farewell, old friend. Farewell.
It was supposed to be the golden era of Rockies baseball. Five Novembers ago, the Rockies signed Troy Tulowitzki to an extension designed to keep him in a Rockies uniform for life.
They didn't have to do this. At the time, Tulo was still four years away from free agency, and had already signed his first long extension with the Rockies three years earlier. But as Troy Renck explains in this piece from years gone by, the big Tulowitzki extension was all about trust. The Rockies loved what they had in Tulo, and Tulo loved what he had in being a Rockie, and both sides wanted the relationship to continue forever.