Could trading Hunter Goodman be in play for Rockies?

The Rockies didn’t bite on any potential interest in two-time All-Star catcher Hunter Goodman at last summer’s trade deadline.

But with the clock rapidly ticking down toward the expiration of the collective-bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players association, a report from MLB Network’s Jon Morosi indicates that the Rockies are “more willing” to deal their slugging catcher, who followed up his 31-homer season in 2025 with a 41-blast campaign last year.

“Rival MLB teams believe the Rockies are more willing to move All-Star catcher Hunter Goodman this offseason than they were at the trade deadline,” Morosi tweeted on Tuesday. “One reason: While labor uncertainty is making it difficult to trade pending free agents, Goodman is under control through 2029.”

That cost certainty for the coming years makes Goodman an attractive piece. Of course, that also enhances his value to the Rockies, for whom he has become a core component.

Of course, Goodman’s brilliance has not prevented the Rockies from posting four-consecutive 100-loss seasons, including the 58-104 season this year. And therein lies the conundrum for the Rockies, who value his presence and contributions greatly — but understand that given the return Baltimore got from Boston for catcher Adley Rutschman at the trade deadline this year, that Goodman could fetch even more, even with some concerns about his defense.

And as president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta told Kevin Henry of The Denver Gazette at the GM meetings in Las Vegas this week, the Rockies must be “open-minded.”

“Some of the position players we have, I think it will be much harder for us to trade because we feel like that’s a strength,” DePodesta told the Gazette. “So we want to be careful about not taking too much away from that. But I think we have to be open-minded.”

ROCKIES COULD HAVE LONG-TERM INTERNAL OPTIONS DEVELOPING AT CATCHER, TOO

The organizational dynamic at catcher has also changed in recent months.

In July, the Rockies used two of their first four draft picks on college catchers, selecting Georgia’s Daniel Jackson with a competitive-balance pick (No. 37 overall) and Jack Natili from the University of Cincinnati with a third-round pick (No. 76 overall). Both are among the Rockies’ top-10 prospects in the most recent club top-30 list compiled by MLB Pipeline.

They also have Bryant Betancourt, a 23-year-old catcher who posted an .815 OPS last season splitting his campaign among AA Hartford and AAA Albuquerque.

And then there is Jack O’Dowd, the son of former Rockies general manager Dan O’Dowd, who rose from A Fresno through High-A Spokane to Hartford by the end of last season. Colorado used one of its Arizona Fall League allocations for O’Dowd, who mashed for the Salt River Rafters over the last month-plus, tying for the AFL lead with six home runs while posting a 1.013 OPS that placed him eighth in the league.

Catcher may be the position at which the Rockies have more organizational depth than any other.

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