These two things I believe to be true:
- If Jon Gray dominates in the 2017 Wild Card Game, the Rockies would have made a better effort to sign him after 2021 — and he may have never left.
- If the Rockies rented Yu Darvish at the 2017 trade deadline, they wouldn’t feel motivated to spend $108 million on a bullpen project in the ensuing offseason.
If Darvish went all 2018 wildcard Kyle Freeland on the 2017 D-Backs, we could be looking at a completely different franchise in Colorado over the past four years.