On November 11, 2014, ex-Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington traded minor league reliever Shane Carle to the Colorado Rockies for reliever Rob Scahill. This came at a time when Huntington was in a stretch of seemingly doing no wrong as the team’s GM. Scahill would be another example of this.
With the Rockies in 2014, Scahill posted a 4.80 ERA and a 6.27 FIP in 15 innings of work. However, with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Scahill would have a successful 2015 season. His 2015 season, however, would consist of just 30.2 innings at the MLB level.