When the Rockies were struggling in the early 2010s, we got plenty of high draft picks. And credit to the organization, those players have developed into one of the better starting rotations in baseball. Let’s look at the Rockies pitching staff as a whole and the strategy Jeff Bridich has applied. In short, it has been to develop starters and buy or trade for relievers.
From 2014 to 2016, the Rockies already had many of the key rotation pieces in the organization that would lead to its most recent postseason appearances: Jon Gray, Tyler Anderson, Kyle Freeland, Chad Bettis, Jeff Hoffman, and German Márquez.