{"id":68829,"date":"2024-03-21T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=68829"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:44:32","slug":"greg-jones-rockies-rays-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/21\/greg-jones-rockies-rays-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Trade Former First-Round Pick to the Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rockies are acquiring utility player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=jonesgr01,jones-004gre&amp;search=Greg+Jones&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Jones<\/a> from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for minor league pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=rock--001joe&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Rock<\/a>. Jones, 26, was Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round pick in the 2019 MLB Draft. He emerged as a top-ten prospect in the team&#8217;s farm system heading into the 2022 season. However, his value has seen a significant drop in Double-A Montgomery, where he hit .238\/.318\/.392. The following season, he hit .244\/.318\/.432 between Double-A and Triple-A Durham.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: The Rays are acquiring pitcher Joe Rock from the Rockies in exchange for SS\/OF Greg Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/1770839401905496167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Greg Jones Traded to the Rockies<\/h2>\n<p>Jones has two remaining minor league option years but looks all over the place on the depth chart. The switch-hitter played both in and outfield. With Colorado, Jones will have a better chance of more playing time, especially in the outfield. He will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/doylebr02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brenton Doyle<\/a>, who is set to be the everyday center fielder but still<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/15\/doyle-swing-change-breakout-rockies\/\" target=\"_self\"> needs to improve on<\/a> last year&#8217;s inconsistencies at the plate. The duo of Jones and Doyle in the outfield will benefit the Rockies as both players are elite runners who could cover plenty of ground.<\/p>\n<p>Jones can also provide depth in the infield. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tovarez01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezequiel Tovar<\/a> has been auditioning for the everyday shortstop role this season, but he has to prove himself in the majors.<\/p>\n<h3>Joe Rock Profile<\/h3>\n<p>Rock was a left-handed pitching prospect for the Rockies who now joins the Rays. He hoped to be a part of the answer to the Rockies&#8217; pitching woes- quality and depth for their starting pitching. Rock, a second-round pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, spent time at Double-A Hartford last season. The Rockies offered him a roster invitation to spring training to give him a chance to pitch. His season at Hartford was affected by an early-season left shoulder inflammation but he pitched well when he returned, earning a promotion to Triple-A Albuquerque in September. He collected a 4.66 ERA and 112:34 K:BB over 94 2\/3 innings in 20 starts.<\/p>\n<p>He will likely be assigned to Triple-A Durham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rockies are acquiring utility player Greg Jones from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for minor league pitcher Joe Rock. Jones, 26, was Tampa Bay&#8217;s first-round pick in the 2019 MLB Draft. He emerged as a top-ten prospect in the team&#8217;s farm system heading into the 2022 season. However, his value has seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":68830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[2,32,1071,35,6],"tags":[3936,6154,2710,5013],"class_list":["post-68829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-rockies","category-mlb","category-news","category-rays","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-ezequiel-tovar","tag-greg-jones","tag-joe-rock"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68829","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}