Imagine this: Bill Schmidt and Dick Monfort waiting outside the free agent marketplace, elbows out and ready to rush through the doors, knocking other teams out of the way to hunt down deals to stock their carts with talent. Focused only on winning and pleasing fans, they spend with reckless abandon. It would be a baseball Black Friday of epic proportions.
Can you picture it?
Me neither.
With the Rockies yet to make any free agent signings or trades and a lockout approaching, an outlandish Black Friday spending spree from a hungry and aggressive Colorado Rockies front office to add power to the offense, a shortstop to replace Trevor Story, actual relief in the bullpen, and a starting pitcher that either is or is not named Jon Gray doesn’t seem likely.