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Jairo Diaz finally nailed down a late-inning role in 2019

Welcome to the 2019 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2019. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). It’s not something the staff debated. We’ll begin with the player with the lowest rWAR and end up with the player with the highest.

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Since coming over from the Angels in a trade for Josh Rutledge after the 2014 season, Jairo Diaz has always been something of a big “What if.