Last week, the Colorado Rockies traded RHP Angel Chivilli to the New York Yankees for first base prospect T.J. Rumsfeld.
Later that day, president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta said of the move,
I wouldn’t say we necessarily wanted to [trade Chivilli], because he obviously has a terrific arm, he’s still very young, he did miss a lot of bats. I think there are a lot of things about Angel that are really attractive. We weren’t anxious to move him, but we did feel like our bullpen is a real area of depth, and there have been clubs asking about a number of our bullpen arms throughout the course of the last couple months. And ultimately, this was a deal that seemed to fit and seemed to come together for us. It wasn’t a situation where we were looking to move him by any stretch, there was just enough interest, and I found a deal that ultimately made sense. But we were dealing from an area of strength where we could then bolster our position player club going forward.
Alexander Wilson of Empire Sports media wrote positively about the potential of the move, referring to Chivilli’s arm as “a high-risk stick of dynamite,” concluding, “I’ll take the dynamite.”
So, Purple Row night owls, here’s the evening’s question: Was trading Chivilli the right move, or should the Rockies have kept him as a reclamation project and moved a different reliever?
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