{"id":467770,"date":"2026-02-11T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467770\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:48:08","slug":"rockies-to-sign-jose-quintana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467770\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies To Sign Jose Quintana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies have followed up their\u00a0Michael Lorenzen<\/a> and\u00a0Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a> signings with another free agent deal for a veteran starter. Colorado is reportedly in agreement with left-hander Jose Quintana<\/a> on a one-year deal, pending a physical. The ACES client is guaranteed $6MM. The Rox will need to open a spot on the 40-man roster once the signing is finalized. Jeff Criswell<\/a>, who underwent Tommy John surgery last March, is a 60-day injured list candidate.<\/p>\n

Quintana signs on the eve of Spring Training after waiting until early March to put pen to paper last winter. He settled for a deferred $4.25MM guarantee with the Brewers that was probably below his expectations coming off a 3.75 ERA in 31 starts for the Mets. Quintana managed decent results in Milwaukee as well, allowing 3.96 earned runs per nine over 131 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

There weren\u2019t a whole lot of encouraging underlying numbers. Quintana\u2019s results have outstripped his peripherals for essentially four consecutive seasons. He has never been a power pitcher, but his already pedestrian velocity and swing-and-miss rates have dropped into his mid-30s. Last year\u2019s 16% strikeout rate was his lowest since the 14% mark he posted in his 2012 rookie season. His sinker and four-seam fastball each land in the 90-91 mph range on average. None of the southpaw\u2019s pitches miss many bats, and last season\u2019s 6.9% swinging strike rate was the second lowest mark for a pitcher who reached 100 innings.<\/p>\n

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Although the 37-year-old doesn\u2019t have a huge ceiling at this stage of his career, he should raise the floor at the back of Warren Schaeffer\u2019s rotation. The pitch-to-contact approach keeps his walks in check. Quintana doesn\u2019t have notable platoon splits and mixes five pitches (sinker, changeup, curveball, four-seam fastball, and slurve). The deeper arsenal seems to be of particular interest to the Rox\u2019s front office and coaching staff. Lorenzen throws seven distinct pitches, while Sugano has a six-pitch mix.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken about this internally a lot,\u201d first-year pitching coach Alon Leichman told Patrick Saunders of The Denver Post<\/a> last week. \u201cWe want big arsenals. We think big arsenals will be harder to game plan against. You know, if a guy has six, seven pitches, that\u2019s harder to game plan for than if a guy has two or three, right? So we think that\u2019s an advantage. The more weapons you have, the more random you can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rockies have committed just over $19MM to add the trio of veteran starters. They\u2019ll join\u00a0Kyle Freeland<\/a> as rotation locks. Ryan Feltner<\/a> and Chase Dollander<\/a> would probably compete for the fifth starter role as things stand. There\u2019s a decent chance an injury during Spring Training clarifies things. Feltner missed the majority of last season with back issues. Quintana himself had a pair of IL stints for a shoulder impingement and calf strain, respectively.<\/p>\n

While it remains arguably the worst rotation in the majors, the Rockies don\u2019t want a repeat of last year\u2019s historically awful performance. Colorado\u2019s 2025 starting staff had a 6.65 ERA that was the highest in any full MLB season in history. This season\u2019s group should at least be markedly better than that.<\/p>\n

None of Lorenzen, Sugano or Quintana are likely to fetch much at the trade deadline even if they\u2019re managing decent results away from Coors Field. They\u2019re all sixth starters\/swing types on contenders. There\u2019s nevertheless value in having experienced arms around to take a few innings and work with Dollander and prospects Gabriel Hughes<\/a> and\u00a0Sean Sullivan<\/a>, each of whom could be up at some point in 2026. They\u2019re less likely to need to rely on McCade Brown<\/a> and\u00a0Tanner Gordon<\/a> for early-season starts.<\/p>\n

This will push Colorado\u2019s projected payroll to $120MM, as calculated by RosterResource<\/a>. They opened last season at $122MM and seem set for a nearly identical spending pattern in Paul DePodesta\u2019s first season as president of baseball operations.<\/p>\n

Jesse Rogers of ESPN<\/a> first reported the Rockies and Quintana had an agreement. Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a> reported the $6MM guarantee. Image courtesy of Mark Hoffman, Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies have followed up their\u00a0Michael Lorenzen and\u00a0Tomoyuki Sugano signings with another free agent deal for a veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,11634,462,82],"class_list":["post-467770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jose-quintana","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467770","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=467770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}