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• Tuesday Rockpile: How to watch spring training

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Today marks the Colorado Rockies’ first all-squad workout, which means that spring training is well and truly on. Bud Black has confirmed that everyone is in camp and healthy, save Sean Sullivan who is recovering from a hip procedure. But the good news is on F...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 11, 2025 No MLB team has had a better offseason than the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have signed a litany of stars: Roki Sasaki; Blake Snell; Teoscar Hernández; Tanner Scott; Michael Conforto . . . There are more, but I have limited space. View this post on Instagram ...2025
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• This Week in Purple: Pitcher and Catchers report on Thursday

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for February 8-9, 2025 The weekend is a great time to kick back and reflect. This Week in Purple is the place to catch up on the news from our team at Purple Row. You’ll find links to Rockpiles and other content below as well as a platform for community discussion in the comments. ★ ★ ★ We made it...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 16, Benny Montgomery

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images The outfielder has a high ceiling, but has been plagued with injuries in his short career so far 16. Benny Montgomery (398 points, 26 ballots) Montgomery, as evaluated by scouts before he was drafted, possessed three plus tools (run, arm, field) with above-average power and athleticism that would keep the righty in center field defensively. The 6’5”,...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Six things we learned at Rockies Fest

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, January 28, 2025 On Saturday, a snow-covered Coors Field welcomed fans to Rockies Fest 2025. A staff member told me 5,000 fans were expected to attend, and although I cannot confirm that number, it was a busy — if cold — day at the ballpark. Clearly, Rockies Fest is a feel-goo...2025
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• Rockies announce 2025 non-roster invites for spring training

Allan Henry-Imagn Images The Rockies are inviting 23 players to Scottsdale on non-roster invites. With less than a month remaining until pitchers and catchers report to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick for camp, the Colorado Rockies have announced their list of non-roster invites for spring training. 23 players—14 of which are homegrown prospects and minor leaguers—will join the Rockies ...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile; Is Nick Martini the Rockies’ Jake Cave 2.0?

Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Let’s start with a simple truth: There are no bad MiLB contracts. The organization does not invest in the player, and there’s a decent chance they will start in Triple-A as a kind of ‘break glass in case of emergency’ backup. Moreover, it’s not unusual for any MLB team to sign a number of players to ...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: ZiPS and the 2025 Colorado Rockies

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, January 7, 2025 With the holidays in the rear-view mirror and baseball players preparing for Spring Training, it’s probably time to turn to FanGraphs 2025 ZiPS projections for the Colorado Rockies. Dan Szymborski’s projections merit the refined baseball fan’s attention, and I always appreciate the fact that...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies at the Winter Meetings: Day 1

Photo by Jessica Tobias/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, December 10, 2024 Yesterday marked the beginning of the 2024 MLB Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas. Like all other teams, the Colorado Rockies were there, answering questions and making the rounds. General manager Bill Schmidt and manager Bud Black, too, spoke to media, and although there wasn’t...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: The Spokane Indians were the Rockies affiliate to watch in 2024

Spokane Indians Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, October 28th, 2024 If you could watch only one minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies in 2024, I sure hope it was the High-A Spokane Indians. The Indians—in their fourth season of affiliation with the Rockies—were without a doubt the most interesting and exciting of the four Rockies farm teams. Under second year skipper R...2024
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• The state of the Colorado Rockies farm system, August 2024

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How does the Rockies farm system look after another year? In the process of writing about every player who received votes in our biannual Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — this edition it was 72 players across 35 ballots — I learned a bit about trends and system strengths and weaknesses. So for anyone who missed a few write-ups or even w...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: Zac Veen is just around the corner

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Colorado news and links for Monday, August 26, 2024 A wise sitcom character once said, “The future is now, old man.” Over these final weeks of the 2024 season, the Colorado Rockies are moving forward with a youth movement. Over the weekend in New York the Rockies deployed a slew of rookies and younger service-time players and a lineu...2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 20-16

Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images Five position players make the next cut We’re entering the mid-point of the mid-season 2024 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list. Previously we had PuRPs 30-26 and 25-21; today we head into the top 20. As a reminder, in this edition of the PuRPs poll, 35 ballots were cast, with 30 points granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Fo...2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: Nos. 35 to 31

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Honorable Mentions who didn’t quite make the Top 30 It’s time to reveal the five players who made it the closest to the mid-season 2024 top 30 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list as voted on by the Purple Row community recently. For each player, I’ll include a link to individual stats and contract status (via Baseball-Reference), as well as notes on ...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 Last year, the Colorado Rockies signed 66-year-old manager Bud Black to a one-year contract extension that covers the 2024 season. Black originally signed with the team in 2017 on a three-year deal with a mutual option for 2020. In 2019, he signed a three-year extension for 2020-2022, and t...2024
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"Renee Dechert Adael Amador, Yanquiel Fernandez, Kyle Karros, Benny Montgomery, and Zac Veen This panel also highlighted players on the brink of making it to the majors."

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"Schmidt likes the competition between some of the top prospects: Jordan Beck, Yanquiel Fernandez, Hunter Goodman, Benny Montgomery, Sterlin Thompson, and Zac Veen, ”It’s good any time there’s competition,” Schmidt said."

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"Sterlin Thompson extended his hitting streak, and the Indians’ two runs were scored by Benny Montgomery on a bases-clearing triple."

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"Benny Montgomery is one of Colorado's top prospects."

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"The Rockies have agreed to a $5MM signing bonus with first round draft pick Benny Montgomery, reports Jim Callis of MLB."

• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 16, Benny Montgomery
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Six things we learned at Rockies Fest
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• Tuesday Rockpile; Is Nick Martini the Rockies’ Jake Cave 2.0?
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies can’t simply rely on the draft lottery to save them

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, December 11, 2024 What would you do with the number one overall pick? That was a question the Colorado Rockies had the best odds to try and answer heading into the draft lottery on Tuesday after their 101-loss season in 2024. Unfortunately, sports are designed to break your heart and a groan ...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies at the Winter Meetings: Day 1
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• Monday Rockpile: The Spokane Indians were the Rockies affiliate to watch in 2024
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• The state of the Colorado Rockies farm system, August 2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 16, Benny Montgomery
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies can’t simply rely on the draft lottery to save them
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: Top 30 summary

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Now that we’ve revealed them a few at a time, it’s time to show them all in one place After revealing the Purple Row community’s Colorado Rockies top prospect list over the last few weeks, it’s time to show the whole list at once with some voting stats. I’ll also have some thoughts on the state of the system as a whole tomorrow to conclude the series. ...2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 20-16
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: Nos. 35 to 31
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies first-inning problems are many

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, April 19, 2024 One of the best places to look as to why the Rockies are off to their worst start in franchise history is at the beginning. The Rockies have been outscored 29-5 in the first inning in their 4-15 start. Colorado has only held opponents scoreless in the first frame four times in 19 games (oddly, non...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: We may be on the ground floor of Zac Veen’s breakout season

Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, April 18, 2024 As expected, the Colorado Rockies’ major league product has been less than desirable so far this season. Sitting at a franchise-worst 4-15 mark to start the season, Colorado is firmly entrenched in the cellar of the division and tied with the Miami Marlins for the worst record in the Nationa...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: A deeper look into the struggles of Nolan Jones

Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 17, 2024 During spring training in 2023, the notable flaw in newly acquired Nolan Jones’s game was an overabundance of strikeouts. His inability to put the ball in play led the Colorado Rockies to option him to Triple-A Albuquerque to begin the year where he worked extensively with hitting coach Jordan...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Ryan McMahon’s swing mechanics are yielding good omens

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 10, 2024 Since being drafted in the second round out of high school by the Colorado Rockies in 2013, we’ve heard a lot about the potential of Ryan McMahon. While his glove has turned into one of the best in all of baseball at third base, the bat was always supposed to be his calling card. His power...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Six things we learned at Rockies Fest
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• Tuesday Rockpile: ZiPS and the 2025 Colorado Rockies
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• Monday Rockpile: The Spokane Indians were the Rockies affiliate to watch in 2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 20-16
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies will have a busy off-season or once again die on their hill.

Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, August 1, 2024 The Chicago White Sox are bad. Like, really bad. They’re riding a 17-game losing streak and are on pace for a 40-122 record – a mark that would go down as the worst in league history ahead (behind?) the 1962 New York Mets who dropped 160 games. So it is no surprise that the lowly franc...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer should be the Rockies 2025 manager
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• Tuesday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies’ offseason is progressing as it should (even if it’s boring)

Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, December 19, 2023 Surely, you have heard all the exciting offseason news coming out of the NL West — it’s been notable. The Los Angeles Dodgers not only signed Shohei Ohtani, but also traded for Tyler Glasnow and Manuel Margot! Dodger blue looks good on you, Shohei. pic.twitter.com/3JpiBW3...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Day 2 of the MLB Winter Meetings: What we’ve learned about the Colorado Rockies’ plans

Kyle Schwab-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, December 5, 2023 During the MLB Winter Meetings, a wide range of MLB personnel speak with the media to answer questions about the season that has ended as well as the one that will begin in February. Yesterday, Colorado Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt had two availabilities, the first with the MLB Network and t...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Letter and the Banner, Again

Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, October 26th, 2023 We once again find ourselves a few blocks away from Coors Field. Instead of being at 20th and Blake we are at Speer and Chopper. Ball Arena, home of the Denver Nuggets, sits silent just two days after the NBA season tipped off within its walls. We’ve been here before. Almost exactly one year ago the Colorado Avalanche raised their 20...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: Nothing about the 2023 Rockies is working
Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, April 20th, 2023 When Colorado Rockies fans scoffed at owner Dick Monfort’s proclamation that the team could play .500 baseball this season, I don’t think any of them imagined just how bad things would be this early on. “It’s tough to watch,” said Rockies play-by-play announcer Drew Goodman during the team’s...2023
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• Rockies prospect channels Elton John and Borat with autographed cards

Benny Montgomery is one of Colorado's top prospects. With his baseball cards, he has a flair for the artistic, often taking the time to draw pictures, write poems and decorate them....2022
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• Monday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies are hot at the right time, which could save them from franchise history (plus Pebble Report)
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, July 24, 2023 After taking the upper hand in a three-game series on the road against the Miami Marlins, the Colorado Rockies are playing some of their best ball of the season post All-Star break. Before splitting a two-game set in the middle of last week against their natural rival Houston Astros, Colorado took...2023
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies have an identity crisis
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 19, 2023 When the Colorado Rockies wake up each morning and look at themselves in the mirror, what do they see? Are they an exciting team drawing closer to contention thanks to a roster full of well-developed and energetic young players? No, that sounds more like the Baltimore Or...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: The at-bat that defines the Rockies’ 2023 season (plus Pebble Report)
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, April 24, 2023 Ryan Feltner delivered a terrific performance on Thursday, tossing 5 ⅔ shutout innings against the Philadelphia Phillies to snap the Colorado Rockies’ eight-game losing streak. The club quickly fell into old habits, however, and dropped the rest of the series to start a new three-game skid bef...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: Ryan McMahon is rolling again (plus Pebble Report)
Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, June 12, 2023 The beginning of the 2023 season was not kind to Colorado Rockies’ 3B Ryan McMahon. Through 34 games, McMahon managed a .210/.286/.387 slash-line and unsavory 36.1% strikeout-rate, leading to a subpar 68 wRC+. But once the team hit the road to play the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 8, McMahon seemed t...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: How should Rockies fans view Ryan McMahon’s ceiling as he races toward record Ks?

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, August 25, 2023 At his current pace, Ryan McMahon could become the all-time Rockies leader in a category no one wants to be king of — most strikeouts in a single season. Through Thursday’s 5-3 loss at Tampa Bay, McMahon has recorded 157 strikeouts (fourth most in MLB this season) in 513 plate appearances. Trev...2023
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• State of the Position, 2023: Outfield
Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Kris Bryant and Yonathan Daza are the only currently-healthy 2022 outfield starters for the Rockies The Rockies have had a rough spring training so far, losing Brendan Rodgers, Lucas Gilbreath and Sean Bouchard to injuries. The last one, in particular, throws a wrench into the Rockies’ outfield plans. However, even before that, there wasn’t a clear-c...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: How to watch spring training
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• This Week in Purple: Pitcher and Catchers report on Thursday
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Six things we learned at Rockies Fest
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• The state of the Colorado Rockies farm system, February 2024

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images After revealing the Top 30 PuRPs over the past few weeks, what does the system look like as a whole? In the process of writing about every player who received votes in our biannual Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — this edition it was 57 players across 23 ballots — I learned a bit about trends and system strengths and weaknesses. So for anyone who mis...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: For the Rockies, the NL West just can’t be won

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, September 8, 2023 While most Rockies fans were skeptical of Dick Monfort’s .500-ball prediction “if (stuff) goes right” prior to the 2023 season, there was still good news about the 2023 schedule: fewer National League West games. For a team that hasn’t won the division in its 30-year existence and will in...2023
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Tulo’s September to Remember

Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, September 6, 2023 For 10 years Colorado Rockies fans had a front-row seat to the evolution of one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game of baseball. They bore witness to spectacular home runs, jaw-dropping defensive plays, All-Star appearances, and MVP-caliber seasons. They were at the genesis of the...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: The at-bat that defines the Rockies’ 2023 season (plus Pebble Report)
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