{"id":564314,"date":"2026-03-25T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:56:10","slug":"rockies-outright-keegan-thompson-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/564314\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Outright Keegan Thompson – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

5:12pm: Thompson has already cleared waivers and is indeed accepting the outright assignment to Triple-A Albuquerque, reports Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a>. Although Colorado announced the DFA this afternoon, they apparently placed him on waivers earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

12:37pm: The Rockies announced they\u2019ve designated reliever\u00a0Keegan Thompson<\/a> for assignment. The right-hander is out of options and didn\u2019t win a spot in Warren Schaeffer\u2019s bullpen. Colorado selected the contracts of backup catcher Brett Sullivan<\/a> and rookie first baseman\u00a0T.J. Rumfield<\/a>, each of whom was informed they\u2019d made the team<\/a> over the weekend. Thompson\u2019s DFA cleared one spot on the 40-man roster, while the other was opened with Pierson Ohl<\/a> (Tommy John surgery) going on the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n

Colorado also optioned hard-throwing righty\u00a0Seth Halvorsen<\/a>, who walked 12 batters in five innings this spring. They \u00a0made five more season-opening IL placements. First baseman Blaine Crim<\/a> (left oblique strain), utility player\u00a0Tyler Freeman<\/a> (back tightness), and outfielder Zac Veen<\/a> (right knee contusion) all land on the 10-day injured list. Righties\u00a0McCade Brown<\/a> (shoulder inflammation) and\u00a0RJ Petit<\/a>\u00a0(Tommy John surgery) open on the 15-day injured list. Colorado will move Petit to the 60-day IL whenever they need a 40-man roster spot. Freeman\u2019s injury means first baseman\/outfielder Troy Johnston<\/a> claims the last bench role.<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s DFA wasn\u2019t motivated by 40-man concerns but rather his out-of-options status. The Rockies opted to carry\u00a0Jaden Hill<\/a> and\u00a0Zach Agnos<\/a> in middle relief over Halvorsen and Thompson. They\u2019re dedicating long relief roles to\u00a0Chase Dollander<\/a> and\u00a0Antonio Senzatela<\/a>. Trade pickup\u00a0Brennan Bernardino<\/a> is their only left-hander in the group, while they\u2019ll use\u00a0Jimmy Herget<\/a>,\u00a0Juan Mejia<\/a> and\u00a0Victor Vodnik<\/a> in the late innings.<\/p>\n

Colorado claimed Thompson off waivers from the Reds in January. He was on a split contract with Cincinnati that would have paid $1.3MM if he made the MLB roster and $350K for time spent in the minors. The Reds tried to sneak him through waivers but the Rockies placed a claim to take a look at him in camp. The 31-year-old righty had a tough spring, allowing 10 runs with six free passes (five walks and a hit batter) against four strikeouts over 12 innings.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a decent chance Thompson sticks in the organization. He\u2019ll likely go on waivers this week. If he clears, he\u2019s unlikely to decline a minor league assignment and walk away from his $350K Triple-A salary. Thompson spent all of last year at the Triple-A level in the Cubs\u2019 system. He turned in a 4.50 ERA while striking out nearly 30% of opponents across 64 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:12pm: Thompson has already cleared waivers and is indeed accepting the outright assignment to Triple-A Albuquerque, reports Thomas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,95677,277830,277831,277832,591,230427,277833,68242,85,230333,7633,163895],"class_list":["post-564314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blaine-crim","tag-brett-sullivan","tag-keegan-thompson","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-pierson-ohl","tag-rj-petit","tag-seth-halvorsen","tag-sports","tag-t-j-rumfield","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-zac-veen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}