Colorado Rockies chairman Dick Monfort, in effect, took off his executive’s hat and donned one of the fan he says he is Tuesday.
Stinging from the backlash following the Rockies’ trade of franchise player Nolan Arenado to the Cardinals for five players, four of them minor leaguers, with the Rockies kicking in $50 million themselves, Monfort said on a Zoom call, “I understand how they feel.
“And, to be quite honest, I would feel the same way. And maybe I do even feel the same way. When we signed Nolan, it was an attempt to keep Nolan here the rest of his career.