{"id":102750,"date":"2025-08-28T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:41:07","slug":"rockies-move-antonio-senzatela-to-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102750\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Move Antonio Senzatela To Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies are moving righty\u00a0Antonio Senzatela<\/a> to the bullpen, general manager Bill Schmidt tells reporters (including Patrick Saunders of The Denver Post<\/a>). Colorado will activate\u00a0Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez<\/a> from the 15-day injured list to start Friday against the Cubs. To make room, Senzatela loses his rotation spot for the final month of a dismal season.<\/p>\n

Senzatela has taken the ball 24 times. He has averaged fewer than five innings per start and been tattooed for a 7.15 earned run average. Senzatela has completed six innings just three times and has only two quality starts. His ERA is nearly a full run higher than\u00a0Jack Kochanowicz\u2019s<\/a> 6.19 mark (entering play tonight), the second worst for a pitcher with 100+ innings. His 11.3% strikeout rate is also worst among that group of 106 hurlers. Senzatela hasn\u2019t pitched well at any point of games, but he\u2019s been particularly poor out of the gate. His first inning ERA is a staggering 11.51, with opponents hitting .443 against him.<\/p>\n

Schmidt was blunt in his summary of Senzatela\u2019s season. \u201cThe bottom line is that he was not helping the club. He was hurting the club, especially early in the game,\u201d the GM said. \u201cSame thing with (Austin Gomber<\/a>). They were putting the team in a hole early, and they were putting our young relievers in a hole, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado released Gomber last week. The southpaw was an impending free agent whom the Rox weren\u2019t going to re-sign coming off a 7.49 ERA showing. Releasing Senzatela would\u2019ve required eating a lot of dead money. He\u2019s signed for another season at $12MM. There\u2019s also a $14MM club option (no buyout) for 2027 that stands virtually no chance of being picked up. Colorado could consider pulling the plug over the offseason but evidently want to first see if he can find some success in relief. Pitching coach Darryl Scott tells Saunders that the Rox aren\u2019t ruling out the possibility of Senzatela returning to the rotation to begin the \u201926 season.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rquez returns after a month-long absence due to biceps tendinitis. He\u2019ll hopefully take five turns through the rotation to close the year. M\u00e1rquez is an impending free agent who\u2019ll be a rebound target for other clubs this offseason. He has struggled to a 5.67 ERA across 20 starts but has a 95 MPH fastball and still misses bats with his knuckle-curve.<\/p>\n

Colorado called up\u00a0McCade Brown<\/a> to replace Gomber. He\u2019s their third rookie in the rotation, joining Chase Dollander<\/a> and Tanner Gordon<\/a>. M\u00e1rquez and\u00a0Kyle Freeland<\/a> round out the group. None of Colorado\u2019s starters have had sustained success this year. Gordon projects as a depth arm, while Brown might end up in relief. There\u2019s little reason for the Rox to continue trotting Senzatela out as a starter at the expense of reps for their younger arms, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies are moving righty\u00a0Antonio Senzatela to the bullpen, general manager Bill Schmidt tells reporters (including Patrick Saunders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[54708,49,48,59192,462,82],"class_list":["post-102750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-antonio-senzatela","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-german-marquez","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}