This situation should sound familiar.
The Colorado Rockies part ways with their established second baseman, knowing that a highly-touted and heavily-valued second-base prospect is waiting in the wings. However, the organization gets cold feet about handing the young man the starting job right out of the gate. Despite his prospect pedigree, they decide he just isn’t ready.
The Rockies then sign one—or maybe more—veteran stopgaps to take the reins until the prospect is ready and eventually called up.
This is what the Rockies did with former top second-base prospect Brendan Rodgers when DJ LeMahieu was allowed to walk away from the organization after the 2019 season.