{"id":260697,"date":"2025-11-04T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:04:12","slug":"rockies-turn-down-mutual-option-with-thairo-estrada-estrada-remains-on-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260697\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Turn Down Mutual Option With Thairo Estrada; Estrada Remains On Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies have turned down their end of a mutual option with infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/estrath01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thairo Estrada<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/harding_at_mlb\/status\/1985500965081137421\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a>. For now, Estrada remains on the roster and the Rockies technically could retain him for 2026 via arbitration, though that seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada, 30 in February, had some good seasons with the Giants. However, in 2024, he struggled enough to get outrighted off the roster midseason and became a free agent afterwards. The Rockies signed him to a one-year, $4MM contract coming into 2025. That broke down as a $3.25MM salary this year, followed by a $750K buyout on a $7MM mutual option.<\/p>\n<p>If Estrada had bounced back to his 2021-23 levels, it would have been a nice buy-low move. Unfortunately, it turned into mostly a lost season. Estrada made separate trips to the injured list for a right wrist fracture, a sprained left thumb and a right hamstring strain. He only got into 39 games and slashed .253\/.285\/.370 for a wRC+ of 66.<\/p>\n<p>Given that performance, the Rockies obviously weren\u2019t going to crank up his salary by picking up the option. He does not automatically become a free agent, however, as he is still shy of six years of major league service. The Rockies could retain Estrada for 2026 via arbitration. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz<\/a> projects Estrada for a $3.8MM salary through the arbitration process.<\/p>\n<p>Even at that price point, the Rockies are probably planning to move on, since Estrada is now coming off two straight years of struggle. If the Rockies don\u2019t tender him a contract, he will become a free agent later in the offseason. He would then be looking for another bounceback opportunity, which could be a minor league deal or perhaps a modest major league pact.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Ron Chenoy, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies have turned down their end of a mutual option with infielder Thairo Estrada, reports Thomas Harding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,54707],"class_list":{"0":"post-260697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-thairo-estrada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260697","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=260697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}