The Albuquerque Isotopes played 144 games last year. Half of them were started by pitchers that are no longer with the Rockies.
Jon Gray’s 29 starts will have to be filled in the big leagues, too.
That makes more than 100 starts, Triple-A and beyond, available in 2022.
This is mere background music to the blaring noise that is the MLB lockout, but the minor league slate is about to begin as scheduled — lockout or not — and there are holes for virtually all teams to address. Those holes will need to be addressed heavily if the lockout holds and 40-man roster players aren’t available.