{"id":686589,"date":"2026-05-22T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:27:10","slug":"rockies-select-chad-stevens-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686589\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Select Chad Stevens – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies announced they\u2019ve selected infielder\u00a0Chad Stevens<\/a> from Triple-A Albuquerque. Colorado placed outfielder Brenton Doyle<\/a> on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to May 20, with a left oblique contusion. The Rox also recalled right-hander Blas Casta\u00f1o<\/a> and optioned lefty reliever\u00a0Sammy Peralta<\/a> to Triple-A. Colorado designated southpaw\u00a0Carson Palmquist<\/a> for assignment to open a spot on the 40-man roster for Stevens.<\/p>\n

Stevens, who signed an offseason minor league contract, has been on a tear in the minors. He\u2019s hitting .362\/.435\/.523 with three homers, 13 doubles and a triple over 40 games with Albuquerque. That\u2019s carried by a .500 average on balls in play, as Stevens has struck out at an elevated 26.2% rate. The former 11th-rounder has a .300\/.378\/.473 line in just shy of 800 trips to the dish at the Triple-A level in his career.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Stevens has played in five MLB games, all of which came with the Angels in early July. He went 2-14 with seven strikeouts. Los Angeles optioned him back to Triple-A after a week and designated him for assignment in September. He\u2019ll provide an extra infielder behind\u00a0Ezequiel Tovar<\/a>,\u00a0Willi Castro<\/a>,\u00a0Kyle Karros<\/a> and\u00a0Edouard Julien<\/a> off Warren Schaeffer\u2019s bench.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little odd that Colorado brought up an infielder to replace Doyle, as they\u2019re operating with a rather thin outfield.\u00a0Jake McCarthy<\/a> is in the primary center field role, while\u00a0Mickey Moniak<\/a> occasionally moves into center.\u00a0Tyler Freeman<\/a> and designated hitter\/corner bat\u00a0Troy Johnston<\/a> are the other outfield options on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Stevens\u2019 selection spells the end of Palmquist\u2019s time on the roster. Colorado\u2019s previous front office regime drafted the 6\u20193\u2033 southpaw in the third round in 2022. The Miami product struggled over nine MLB appearances last year. The Rockies moved him to the bullpen late last summer. Palmquist has spent this season on optional assignment to Triple-A. He has started his past few times out but is still working 2-3 inning stints.<\/p>\n

Palmquist has allowed 7.20 earned runs per nine over 25 frames with Albuquerque, walking 15% of opponents against a modest 19% strikeout rate. The Rockies will trade him or put him on waivers within the next five days. Palmquist has never been outrighted in his career, so he\u2019d remain in the organization if he clears waivers.<\/p>\n

Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a> reported the Stevens call-up before the team announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies announced they\u2019ve selected infielder\u00a0Chad Stevens from Triple-A Albuquerque. Colorado placed outfielder Brenton Doyle on the 10-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,39351,251662,330774,591,85],"class_list":["post-686589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-carson-palmquist","tag-chad-stevens","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686589","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=686589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}