NEW YORK — Mark Reynolds could see the move coming, but that didn’t make it hurt less.
“I’ve been around a long time, and I kind of saw the writing on the wall, so I wasn’t surprised,” the Rockies’ veteran first baseman said Sunday morning after being told he’d been designated for assignment. “Still, it’s kind of a punch in the gut.”
The Rockies, in the midst of a six-game losing streak, with their starting pitching in a free fall and their bullpen taxed to the limit, made several moves ahead of Sunday’s game against the Yankees.