Cuddyer.

​While other teams like the Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are spilling money on free agents like a drunk at the bar who just won the lotto, the Rockies are making un-sexy yet sound acquisitions. The latest and best came Friday when word leaked that the Rockies were closing in on a three-year, $31.5 million deal with free agent Michael Cuddyer, formerly of the Minnesota Twins, and the Rockies' top free agent target. The trade becomes official this week pending a physical for Cuddyer, and he will presumably take over in right field and hit fifth in the lineup.

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Street.

​After your Colorado Rockies traded closer Huston Street to the San Diego Padres yesterday for a player to be named later, General Manager Dan O'Dowd made sure to tell MLB.com that the organization didn't just dump money in the deal, but created opportunities for players inside the organization. That is true, and as much promise as Mr. Player-to-be-named-later shows, the main attraction of trading Street was paying only the .5 of the $7.5 million he is due next year. That's money that can now be put toward signing a veteran starting pitcher, which is the team's biggest need.

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Troy Tulowitzki.

​Examining the Rockies' season is a lot like an autopsy. Something has gone horribly wrong and now it's time to figure out why. At the beginning of the season the Rockies had very legitimate aspirations of winning their first National League West division title, if not more. The Rockies finished at 73-89, fourth in the division. This is hardly the result the organization hoped for when it shelled out $250 million in contracts before the season.

Let's examine the body.

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Pomeranz.

​If you told Rockies fans at the beginning of the year that on September 11, Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Todd Helton would not be playing and the highlight of the game for a sub-.500 team would be a 6-foot-5 rookie pitcher from Mississippi, they might have punched you in the throat, started drinking or both. But yesterday, the three biggest names on the Rockies were on the bench with minor injuries while Drew Pomeranz, the prize of the Ubaldo Jimenez trade, crushed his major league debut.

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Pomeranz.

​Drew Pomeranz eats appendectomies and shits perfect innings. And now, the prize of the Ubaldo Jimenez trade is officially a major-league baseball player.

Just over two weeks after having an emergency appendectomy, Pomeranz pitched three perfect innings yesterday for the Tulsa Drillers, the Rockies' Double-A affiliate. He will join the Rockies in Denver today, along with several other prospects.

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Alex White.

​From the Rockies' perspective, Alex White and Drew Pomeranz, the top two pitchers they landed from the Cleveland Indians, have to be better than one Ubaldo Jimenez. After all, Joe Gardner and Matt McBride, the other two players the Rockies received, aren't guaranteed to make a meaningful contribution in the majors.

So how have White and Pomeranz fared so far?

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Jacobs.

​So far, the most notable moment of the Rockies season was when management traded Ubaldo Jimenez, the best pitcher in team history. And now we have another notable -- but not positive event -- with which to mark the season: Mike Jacobs, first baseman for the Rockies' Triple-A team, has become the first professional baseball player to test positive for human growth hormone (HGH), a performance-enhancing substance banned by baseball. He has been suspended for fifty games by Major League Baseball and released by the Rockies.

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Video below.

​Talk about a metaphor for the Rockies' season. In the background of a Bobby Valentine live shot on ESPN last night, sharp-eyed viewers saw third-base coach Rich Dauer get drilled in the face with a cross-diamond throw from Chris Nelson, reportedly breaking his nose in the process. Keep your eye on the lower-right-hand side of the clip below. Sympathies to Dauer -- and the entire Rockies team.

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Ubaldo Jimenez.

​The Rockies won't know how they made out on the Ubaldo Jimenez trade until next year at the earliest.

But based on Jimenez's first two starts with the Cleveland Indians, especially last night's gem, Colorado could be feeling some seller's remorse.

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Ubaldo Jimenez.

​Watching Ubaldo Jimenez in the first half of last season was like nothing Rockies fans have ever experienced. The franchise has never had an elite ace the rest of the league was jealous of, and Jimenez was historically great to start last season. But everything that has happened outside of those three and a half months justifies the Rockies trading the best pitcher they have ever had for four minor-league players from the Cleveland Indians.

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