The Rockies liked Lyles's stuff enough to bring him back to see how he did full-time in the bullpen, and I was OK with that. Kind of expensive for a bullpen experiment but whatever, not my money. I wonder if Bridich is going to be able to trade him... his track record as a reliever is terrible but another team could take a look at his age, health, and arm and may decide a change of scenery could help. 

If was pretty clear midway through this year that he wasn't a long-term answer but I was never too down on Lyles because with only a handful of exceptions he never really cost the team a game, he just wasn't used that way. Didn't make sense to me to bring somebody up to take his spot just to get rid of him, it made much more sense to get rid of him when he was forced out of the bullpen by better guys above him, and that's what ended up happening. I wouldn't have complained if Oberg had been optioned instead, either way they would have got rid of a guy who was not helping them at all.