{"id":113898,"date":"2026-02-11T00:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=113898"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:19:53","slug":"report-rockies-sign-starting-pitcher-jose-quintana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/11\/report-rockies-sign-starting-pitcher-jose-quintana\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockies Sign Starting Pitcher Jose Quintana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/01\/29\/the-rockies-offseason-so-far-is-a-good-sign-of-things-to-come\/\" target=\"_self\">active offseason<\/a> for the Colorado Rockies continues. Late Tuesday night, Jesse Rogers of ESPN reported that left-hander <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/q\/quintjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Quintana<\/a>, 37, is in agreement with the Rockies to return for his 15th season in Major League Baseball, pending a physical. Quintana spent 2025 with the Milwaukee Brewers, posting a 3.96 ERA over 131 2\/3 innings pitched. The Rockies will be the ninth team the journeyman pitcher has played for.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News: Veteran Jose Quintana is in agreement with the Colorado Rockies, sources tell ESPN. The 37-year-old is back for his 15th big league season. The deal is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Rogers (@JesseRogersESPN) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseRogersESPN\/status\/2021443056269131792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Rockies Continue To Fill Out Starting Rotation<\/h2>\n<p>The Rockies&#8217; rotation was in dire need of repair when Paul DePodesta took over as the President of Baseball Operations this offseason. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/11\/11\/paul-depodesta-rockies-starting-pitching\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> with Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post in November, DePodesta said they would have to be open-minded about all the different ways they can acquire players, especially pitchers. DePodesta has more than backed that up. Quintana joins righties <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lorenmi01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Lorenzen<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suganto01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a> as starting pitchers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2026\/01\/07\/report-rockies-sign-starting-pitcher-michael-lorenzen\/\" target=\"_self\">brought in through free agency<\/a> this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, the Rockies&#8217; starting rotation has a serious veteran presence. Lorenzen, Sugano, and Quintana are 34, 36, and 37, respectively. Rockies&#8217; mainstay, LHP <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/freelky01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Freeland<\/a>, 32, is no longer the elder statesman in the rotation. Alongside Freeland, the new additions join intriguing right-hander <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gordota01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanner Gordon<\/a>, 28, who was the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/29\/tanner-gordon-intriguing-option-rockies-rotation\/\" target=\"_self\">best starting pitcher<\/a> in the Rockies&#8217; porous rotation last season. RHP <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/feltnry01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Feltner<\/a>, 25, is also returning from an injury that derailed his 2025 season. But Feltner had a stellar 2024 and closed out that season as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/31\/rockies-rotation-needs-healthy-ryan-feltner\/\" target=\"_self\">most effective pitcher<\/a> in the Rockies&#8217; rotation. RHP <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dollach01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chase Dollander<\/a>, the Rockies&#8217; first-round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft out of the University of Tennessee, will be looking to rebound following a disappointing rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, the Rockies&#8217; patchwork rotation is chock full of options. Now having two left-handed options in Freeland and Quintana. A welcome place to be after the position group entered the offseason as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/11\/multiple-teams-interested-rockies-star-brenton-doyle\/\" target=\"_self\">thinnest on the Rockies&#8217; roster<\/a>. This is a new era for the Rockies&#8217; front office, and the activity has been very refreshing. The newfound depth and veteran experience will pay dividends for the Rockies&#8217; rotation this season. It will be an intriguing position group to watch this spring. Seeing which pitchers emerge to fill out the Rockies&#8217; rotation on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The active offseason for the Colorado Rockies continues. Late Tuesday night, Jesse Rogers of ESPN reported that left-hander Jose Quintana, 37, is in agreement with the Rockies to return for his 15th season in Major League Baseball, pending a physical. Quintana spent 2025 with the Milwaukee Brewers, posting a 3.96 ERA over 131 2\/3 innings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5354,"featured_media":113903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1071,35],"tags":[379,2227,126,29203,28320,6532,4361],"class_list":["post-113898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jose-quintana","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-paul-depodesta","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-tomoyuki-sugano"],"modified_by":"Augustus Oswald, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113904,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113898\/revisions\/113904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}