LAS VEGAS — Taming the elephant in the room has been a daunting task that’s tormented every front-office boss in Colorado Rockies history.

Paul DePodesta, Colorado’s new president of baseball operations, is well aware of that elephant: bad starting pitching. And the elephant has never been bigger or wilder than it was in 2025, when Rockies starters posted a 6.65 ERA , the highest such number since the statistic became official in 1913.

But DePodesta, officially hired last Friday and still in the early stages of building his staff, said Tuesday that he’s open to a wide array of solutions to fix the pitching woes that were central to the Rockies’ 43-119 record. That includes making offseason trades to bolster the rotation.

“I’ve certainly got some ideas on what to do,” DePodesta said du

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