Major League Baseball’s trade deadline arrives one month and one day from Friday. The Rockies, owners of a 33-43 record and nine games out of the final National League wild-card spot, certainly won’t be buyers.
General manager Bill Schmidt, whose immediate goal is to climb back to .500, will listen to offers from other teams. But that certainly doesn’t mean that the Rockies will have a fire sale. After all, the club held on to both all-star shortstop Trevor Story and right-hander Jon Gray last summer and they walked away as free agents.
“Rebuilding” is apparently not part of the Rockies’ vocabulary, even though they have a .