11:15pm: It\u2019s a one-year, $6MM guarantee, reports Robert Murray of FanSided.<\/p>\n
10:40pm: 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 in agreement with left-hander\u00a0Jose Quintana<\/a> on a deal, reports Jesse Rogers of ESPN<\/a>. The signing is pending a physical.<\/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 manage 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 Although Quintana 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. He 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 More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:15pm: It\u2019s a one-year, $6MM guarantee, reports Robert Murray of FanSided. 10:40pm: The Rockies have followed up their\u00a0Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[22271,363,99],"class_list":["post-461569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-jose-quintana","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}