The Elehuris Montero experiment is over

The Colorado Rockies have seen some departures over the last week. 2018 draft pick and valuable member of the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes Coco Montes requested his release to join the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japan and utilityman Alan Trejo was designated for assignment and elected free agency rather than return to the Isotopes.

The third and most surprising move came on Sunday morning when the Rockies announced they had designated 25-year-old first baseman and designated hitter Elehuris Montero for assignment, likely ending the experiment that started back in 2021.

Montero was the St. Louis Cardinals’ no. 7 organizational prospect at the end of 2020 and was the headliner of four prospects…