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• Wednesday Rockpile: When will the Rockies youth process actually pay off?

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, March 26, 2025 As we approach Opening Day for the 2025 season, the Colorado Rockies will officially announce their roster sometime before their game against Tampa Bay on Friday. The roster became a highly debated topic over the past weekend because of a sequence of moves that revealed the Rockies plans...2025
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• The 2025 Colorado Rockies: A SWOT analysis

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, March 25, 2025 It’s happening! The 2025 season has started, and we’ll have Colorado Rockies baseball this weekend. And that means, it’s time for my yearly SWOT analysis. (Read last year’s here.) As a refresher, my preference is to write a (very rough) SWOT analysis that examines strengths, weaknesses, oppor...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Zac Veen’s failure to “earn” a roster spot calls Rockies’ youth movement into question

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, March 24th, 2025 “If one of the young guys are ready, we’re not afraid to go with them.” These were the words of Colorado Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt as spring training began back in February... Words that ring exceptionally hollow after this past weekend. These events were kicked off by the shocking trade...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Making predictions and preparing for 2025 as a Rockies fan in a Yankees-Dodgers world

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, March 21, 2025 The 2025 MLB season begins in one week. As Rockies fans, it’s hard to level set expectations with the recurring hope and optimism that naturally rises inside baseball fans each spring. Over the last few years, I have tried to find better ways to manage my expectations. In January, I looked to...2025
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• State of the Position, 2025: General Manager

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post After back-to-back 100+ loss seasons, Bill Schmidt did little in the off-season to change the outlook for the Rockies. After hitting the triple digits in losses for the first time in a single season in 2023, the Colorado Rockies doubled down on the futility with a 61-101 in 2024. After losing 204 of their past 328 games, general manager Bill Schmid...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Which outfielders will break camp with the Colorado Rockies?

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, March 17, 2025 Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! Allan Henry-Imagn Images In the spirit of the day, “May the wind be always at your back.” For the Colorado Rockies, this week will probably find some players with the wind at the back in the sense of heading to Triple-A Albuquerque. Since Rock...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Zac Veen’s failure to “earn” a roster spot calls Rockies’ youth movement into question
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• State of the Position, 2025: Starting Rotation

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The rotation remains relatively unchanged, but there could be some shakeups coming The Colorado Rockies’ starting rotation is once again a bit of a question mark heading into the 2025 season, but there is a bit more excitement than last year. Three mainstays are poised to return; two others are set to (hopefully) return from Tommy John surgery; but...2025
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• State of the Position, 2025: Outfield

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Doyle has center field locked down, but the corners are less certain. The Colorado Rockies are heading into the 2025 campaign with multiple question marks in the cavernous Coors Field outfield. They appear to have found their franchise center fielder in Brenton Doyle, but things are far less certain when it comes to the corner outfield spots. There ...2025
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• State of the Position, 2025: Third base

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Gold Glove finalist will set the tone for the infield. The Colorado Rockies have a tradition of solid third basemen with All-Star and multi-Gold-Glove finalist Ryan McMahon the most recent iteration. That McMahon will be the Rockies’ primary third baseman in 2025 is a given, and fans have a good sense of the player McMahon is. After that, the pictu...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Five things we know (so far) from Colorado Rockies spring training

Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Let’s start with a caveat: Spring training games mean nothing. Still, it’s great to have baseball back and ponder the possibilities. I spent the last 10 days going through video clips the Colorado Rockies sent out every day. In those notes, I’ve tried not to editorialize: ...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies players, manager and GM share reasons for ‘real optimism’ in 2025

Allan Henry-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, February 21, 2025 Today, the Rockies take on the Diamondbacks in their first Cactus League game of the season. Spring training has finally arrived. With snow in Denver, it doesn’t quite feel like baseball season yet. Add in Colorado’s six straight losing seasons with two consecutive 100-plus loss seasons, it’s more than ...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Where are these former members of the 2024 Rockies?

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, February 17th, 2025 The Colorado Rockies are reporting to their spring training home in Scottsdale, Arizona with a full 40-man roster an 23 non-roster invitees. These 63 players all have the same goal: to prepare for the upcoming 2025 baseball season and to hopefully be one of the 26 men named to the Rockies’ Opening Day ...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Monfort’s ‘best defense’ or just a better defense for the Rockies in 2025?

Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, February 14, 2025 On several occasions, the Rockies have been known to misjudge reality. From Dick Monfort saying the 2023 Rockies could be a .500 team to giving Kris Bryant a 7-year, $182 million deal in 2022 to failing to re-sign DJ LeMahieu and inking Daniel Murphy for the same price the Yankees gave LeMahi...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What does Charlie Blackmon’s retirement mean for the Colorado Rockies?

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Late yesterday, the news became official: Charlie Blackmon announced his retirement. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie Blackmon (@chuck__nazty) Evan Lang wrote a terrific overview of Blackmon’s career yesterday, and our ...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Rockies fans, there’s a new Nolan in LoDo

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 It’s time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: Kris Bryant will never be the face of Colorado Rockies, despite their best efforts. He’s here & he’s perfect pic.twitter.com/GgnxVwuAIr— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) March 18, 2022 To be clear, Bryant is a great baseball player, and his a...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: The case for signing Charlie Blackmon to a one-year extension

Photo by Dustin Bradford/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, August 15, 2023 It’s happening. The Colorado Rockies are letting the kids play just as they’re coming out from under some veteran contracts, which includes seeing the end of Charlie Blackmon’s six-year, $108 million deal. (This year, he’s making $15 million.) In 2024, the Rockies can reset an...2023
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"The Rox announced today that Blackmon has been named as a special assistant to general manager Bill Schmidt, and he “will assist in all areas of baseball…"

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"Rockies’ general manager Bill Schmidt isn’t quite prepared to name Vodnik the closer, but likes what he’s seen so far."

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"Bill Schmidt keeps pointing to the future and the prospects that the Rockies have, yet they call up a prospect with a hot bat and have him sit on the bench without playing before sending him down."

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"General manager Bill Schmidt told reporters (including The Athletic’s Nick Groke) today that manager Bud Black will return for the 2023 season, saying that “Buddy came here right when we were ready to…"

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"The Rockies have removed the “interim” tag from Bill Schmidt, as Schmidt will take over the team’s front office as the new general manager."

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"Rockies vice president of scouting Bill Schmidt insists he isn't this smart, even though the scouts make him look that way."

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""He's a grinder," said Rockies scouting director Bill Schmidt."

• Wednesday Rockpile: When will the Rockies youth process actually pay off?
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• The 2025 Colorado Rockies: A SWOT analysis
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• Friday Rockpile: Making predictions and preparing for 2025 as a Rockies fan in a Yankees-Dodgers world
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• State of the Position, 2025: General Manager
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Which outfielders will break camp with the Colorado Rockies?
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• State of the Position, 2025: Third base
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• State of the Position, 2025: Second Base

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The newly-signed second baseman will hold down the keystone for the Rockies Change is as natural a part of life as anything. Resist though we might, it comes for us all the same. All we can do is try to prepare for it and await its inevitable arrival. Still, some changes can take time to adjust to, and that will doubtless be the case for R...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Five things we know (so far) from Colorado Rockies spring training
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• Thursday Rockpile: You should be excited about Scott Alexander

Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, February 20, 2025 Even with spring training well and truly upon us and players officially back in camp gearing up for the season, signings and trades continue to permeate the landscape of baseball, and the Colorado Rockies decided to take part in these transactions when they signed reliever Scott Alexander to ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 8, Sean Sullivan

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The left-hander won High-A Northwest Pitcher of the Year despite being promoted to Double-A mid-season 8. Sean Sullivan (653 points, 28 ballots) Sullivan was Colorado’s second-round pick in 2023 (46th overall) as the number two starter at Wake Forest behind Reds first-round pick Rhett Lowder. In 2023, he threw 69 2⁄3 innings in 17 gam...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Monfort’s ‘best defense’ or just a better defense for the Rockies in 2025?
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• Monday Rockpile: Are the Rockies actually a draft and develop team?

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, January 13th, 2025 The Colorado Rockies were never going to make a big splash signing this off-season. Not with looming austerity measures coming for the team and not after six consecutive losing campaigns that included back-to-back seasons with 100 losses. While those at the top will never admi...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Making predictions and preparing for 2025 as a Rockies fan in a Yankees-Dodgers world
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (18 February 2025)

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Today involved a wide range of questions and an interview with Michael Toglia. Today, in addition to Bud Black and Michael Toglia, general manager Bill Schmidt took questions from the press. The topics covered were diverse. Bud Black Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black stressed that this team has more depth. “The depth piece is much improved,” Black...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Where are these former members of the 2024 Rockies?
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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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• Wednesday Rockpile: How often are the Rockies planning to rest players exactly?

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, December 18, 2024 When the San Francisco Giants introduced their new shortstop Willy Adames, the 29-year-old from the Dominican Republic quickly made it clear he wants to play all 162 games in 2025. “If he lets me,” Adames said jokingly about manager Bob Melvin. The Giants are likely to incline his offe...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Why did the Colorado Rockies sign Kyle Farmer?

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, November 25, 2024 Initially, last Friday unfolded about like we thought it would: The non-tender deadline had passed with the Colorado Rockies moving on from Cal Quantrill (no suprise) and Brendan Rodgers (kind of a surprise) while tendering a range of players who were expected to remain on t...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies keep signing on for non-competitive future

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, October 11, 2024 According to the Cambridge Dictionary, one of the definitions for the word competitive is “eager to do better than others in an activity, esp. trying to win in a sports activity.” It’s not a word that usually needs defining, especially in the sports world. But it seems like the Rockies might nee...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: The Future of the Rockies bullpen is drawing near

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, August 19th, 2024 As the Colorado Rockies are barreling towards their second-consecutive 100-loss season, there’s no doubt that a struggling bullpen has been one of the key factors of yet another lost season. For the third-straight season, the Colorado bullpen is the worst in Major League Ba...2024
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• Rockies Plan To Retain Bud Black As Manager For 2023 Season
The Rockies are wrapping their fouth straight losing season, yet the organization hasn’t felt compelled to make a change in the dugout. General manager Bill Schmidt told reporters (including The Athletic’s Nick Groke) today that manager Bud Black will return for the 2023 season, saying that “Buddy came here right when we were ready to…...2022
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• Rockies Hire Charlie Blackmon For Special Assistant Role
Charlie Blackmon’s 14-year playing career ended when he announced his retirement back in September, but the Rockies franchise icon is sticking around for a new front office job. The Rox announced today that Blackmon has been named as a special assistant to general manager Bill Schmidt, and he “will assist in all areas of baseball…...2025
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• Rockies Hire Todd Helton As Special Assistant
The Rockies announced that franchise legend Todd Helton has been hired as a special assistant to GM Bill Schmidt. According to Danielle Allentuck of The Denver Gazette (Twitter links), Helton’s primary responsibility will be working with minor league players, and Allentuck notes that Helton has already been working with prospect Michael Toglia (Colorado’s first-round pick…...2022
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• Rockies extend Bud Black for ninth season as manager

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Black believes the Rockies are headed in the right direction The Colorado Rockies announced that manager Bud Black will indeed return as the manager through the 2025 season, his ninth season with the team. The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have extended Manager Bud Black’s contract through the 2025 season. pic.twitter.com/KqsGVKfkqH— Ro...2024
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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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• Thursday Rockpile: The 2023 Rockies will live or die by the starting rotation
Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, April 6, 2023 The first cycle through the Colorado Rockies rotation was a mixed bag of results. It was the one aspect of the team that was left relatively untouched during the offseason by general manager Bill Schmidt and the team’s plan of attack seems to simply hope and pray that they perform better in 2023. ...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile; The Rockies signed three veterans to one-year contracts. How’s that working out?
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Remember during the offseason when Bill Schmidt promised that the Rockies would not block their young players? “[W]e’re going to give our guys opportunities,” he told David Laurila in early December. That sounds like a general manager committed to letting the kids play. Since then, howeve...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: Kris Bryant and the Rockies might have a brighter future than Russell Wilson and the Broncos

Photo by Dustin Bradford/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, December 28th, 2023 It’s no secret that the Colorado Rockies signing of veteran Kris Bryant to a seven year, $182 million contract before the 2022 season has been an absolute flop so far. Bryant’s lengthy and expensive contract includes a full no-trade clause and has felt more and more like...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: Zac Veen’s failure to “earn” a roster spot calls Rockies’ youth movement into question
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• Should the Colorado Rockies sign Kirby Yates?

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Because it’s that very slow time in the offseason — unless you happen to be Juan Soto or a team hoping to sign Juan Soto — between the end of awards season and the start of the Winter Meetings next week, there’s little baseball news to discuss. (Seriously: Just rebrand the MLB Network the ...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: There can be only one: Brenton Doyle’s case for winning a Platinum Glove

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, November 5, 2024 If you’re a fan of the 1986 film classic Highlander, you know the first rule: Only one Immortal can survive. Oddly enough, this Russell Mulcahy cult favorite was on my mind when watching the Gold Glove awards on Sunday night, an evening that recognized Colorado Rockies Ezequiel Tovar and Brent...2024
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• Friday Rockpile: This is why we need local sports journalism

Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, September 29, 2023 Thank you, Denver Post. I had a whole different Rockpile written today, but I scrapped it in order to give a shoutout to the Denver Post, specifically Patrick Saunders, Kyle Newman, and Matt Schubert for the amazing, in-depth, and no-holds-barred four-part series that dropped Thursday, explainin...2023
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 20 to 16

Photo by David Jensen/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images These five prospects round out the bottom half of the 2023 mid-season PuRPs list! We’re entering the mid-point of the mid-season 2023 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, 22 ballots were cast, with 30 points granted f...2023
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• A new documentary celebrates the community that brought MLB to Colorado
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, July 27, 2023 If it takes a village to raise a child, then it’s no wonder it takes a city to bring a Major League Baseball team into existence. That city needs skilled politicians, lawyers, creative business folks, people who can bring and find money, architects, baseball fans, taxpayers, ...2023
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• Monday Rockpile: An insular philosophy, reaffirmed
Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, January 30, 2023 Once again, we have entered “Sent from my iPad” season for the Colorado Rockies. On Saturday, Dick Monfort spoke at the annual Northern Colorado Friends of Baseball breakfast in his hometown of Greeley, Colorado, and…oh boy. Monfort’s appearance was first reported on by Patrick Saunders at the...2023
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