Saunders: Trevor Story non-trade tells us a lot about state of Rockies

I’m trying to determination past my kneejerk absorption to the Rockies’ determination to bash adjacent to thing during baseball’s different frenzied week of trading. I’m going to effort and enactment things into perspective.

* Make nary mistake astir it, Trevor Story is aggravated that helium didn’t get traded. Story is the eventual bully worker and squad player, truthful erstwhile helium said, “I’m confused and I don’t person truly thing bully to accidental astir the concern and however it unfolded,” that was a reddish emblem astir the authorities of the organization.

* Interim wide manager Bill Schmidt insisted that helium kept Story successful the loop, telling the shortstop each on that was a accidental that helium would inactive beryllium with the Rockies the remainder of the season.

“The disappointment? I recognize that, but I deliberation Trevor’s a precise bully professional,” Schmidt said. “He’ll determination on. He’ll play done it. We’ll spell connected and code it successful the offseason.”

That’s fine, for the abbreviated term. But here’s the thing: Star players speech to each different — a lot. So bash their agents. Nolan Arenado forced his mode retired of town due to the fact that helium didn’t judge the Rockies were committed to winning. Story, obviously, feels the aforesaid way, which is wherefore he’s not unfastened to signing a semipermanent deal. What benignant of connection does that nonstop to imaginable escaped agents erstwhile the Rockies travel calling successful the offseason?

* Schmidt is taking a batch of vigor for Colorado’s determination to bent onto Story and not enactment a woody to summation prospects. Schmidt, however, was successful a pugnacious situation. His predecessor, Jeff Bridich, should person traded Story earlier the play started. Maybe helium wanted to, possibly proprietor Dick Monfort said no. I’m definite the Arenado messiness muddied the waters.

* Schmidt didn’t accidental it, but Story’s comparatively mediocre show this play surely brought down his commercialized value, astatine slightest arsenic a rental. But I person nary uncertainty that Story has much all-star seasons up of him.

* The past week provided much grounds the Rockies volition apt region the “interim” tag from Schmidt’s occupation description. I’m connected the grounds arsenic saying that I deliberation the franchise is excessively insular and needs to shingle things up and prosecute from the outside. Numerous agents and rival executives person told maine precisely that.

Schmidt, however, is highly respected passim the game. And determination are those who judge he’s the close acceptable for the Rockies’ situation.

“Bill has the cleanable temperament for that role,” said 1 erstwhile big-league enforcement who knows the Rockies well. “Dick (Monfort) conscionable needs to let Schmidt to situation himself with the close front-office team.”

* One encouraging happening that came retired of Schmidt’s Friday day Zoom league was that helium said Monfort and squad president Greg Feasel allowed him to bash his job.

* Schmidt seems precise comfy with his determination to clasp onto Story.

“It wasn’t for deficiency of effort,” Schmidt said. “We had immoderate talks with different clubs. But astatine the extremity of the day, it is what it is.”

And Schmidt reiterated that Colorado’s beforehand bureau believed that immoderate commercialized connection for Story had to astatine slightest beryllium adjacent to the worth of a compensatory draught pick, which volition travel adjacent summer. Schmidt has besides noted that the Rockies primitively selected Story successful 2011 arsenic a compensatory prime (45th overall).

But here’s the thing. The shot draught is simply a crapshoot, and adjacent if the Rockies marque the close pick, that subordinate volition beryllium astatine slightest 4 years distant from the majors. The Rockies person a beardown starting pitching halfway — close now. You’d deliberation the Rockies could person engineered a commercialized for Story that would person fixed them immoderate much contiguous prospects to brace with their pitchers implicit the adjacent mates of years.

But to usage Schmidt’s phrase, “It is what it is.”