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• This Week in Purple: Trade Deadline Ahead!

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for July 26-27, 2025 It’s been a busy 24 hours as the Colorado Rockies traded Ryan McMahon to the New York Yankees and are also reportedly calling up Warming Bernabel for his MLB debut as a possible replacement. The crazy thing is that the trade deadline is a week away; but the not-so-crazy thing ...2025
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images The All-Star third baseman is headed to the Bronx. According to Mark Feinsand and multiple reports, the Colorado Rockies have traded third baseman Ryan McMahon to the New York Yankees. Breaking: The Yankees are acquiring 3B Ryan McMahon from the Rockies, per source. Colorado will receive two prospects in return.— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: General Manager

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, July 21st, 2025 The historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies look very different than they did when the season began in a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. With this in mind, the staff at Purple Row felt it would be useful to revisit the “State of the Position” series...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Manager and Coaching Staff

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images Time will tell if Schaeffer loses the interim tag or if the organization goes in another direction The historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies look very different than they did when the season began in a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. With this in mind, the staff at Purple Row felt it would be useful to revisit the “State of the Position” serie...2025
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• MLB Draft 2025, Day 1, Rounds 1-3: Rockies preview and discussion thread

Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A critical draft for the rebuilding Rockies has arrived at last. They have four day one picks. The Major League Baseball Rule 4 First Year Player Draft for 2025 has arrived at last. Once again part of All-Star week festivities, the MLB draft will kick off at 4:00 PM MDT with the Washington Nationals selecting first overall. This draft i...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Should the Rockies bring back DJ LeMahieu?

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, July 11, 2025 Two All-MLB First Team selections, two Silver Sluggers and two top-five MVP finishes. Three All-Star appearances. Four Gold Glove awards. Fifteen seasons with 1,772 hits in 1,673 games. The first player in the Modern Era to win a batting title in both the National and American Leagues. These ...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies are lucky to have York as a sponsor and need to learn from the partnership

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, July 4, 2025 With the inking of York Space Systems as a sponsor, adding an additional revenue source that resulted in a deal through 2030 that includes a uniform patch, commercials, Coors Field signage and more, the Rockies finally made a good move this week. With the July 1 announcement, the Rockies made news as a first i...2025
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• Weekly Pebble Report: Zac Veen is back in Albuquerque. Now he must find his way back to the majors. (June 17th-June 23rd)

Original Image Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images (April 20th, 2025) Colorado Rockies minor league report for Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 Many fans raised their eyebrows when the Colorado Rockies left top outfield prospect Zac Veen off the Opening Day 26-man roster. It called into question the Rockies’ dedication to a much-needed rebuild after back-to-back 100 loss seasons and six conse...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies voices are clamoring for change

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, June 9th, 2025 The Colorado Rockies are still not a good baseball team. While the sweep against the almost equally-moribund Miami Marlins was a lot of fun, the visiting New York Mets promptly put the Rockies back in their place over the weekend. Although there have been incremental and in...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies quietly leading MLB in triples this season

Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, June 6, 2025 When Charlie Blackmon retired at the end of last season, the Colorado Rockies and their fans knew he would leave a vacancy that couldn’t be replaced. Whether it was his work ethic, quiet leadership, goofy sense of humor, or his ability to make fans sing “toooooniiiight” on his walk-up song louder t...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies are historically bad, but where is Dick Monfort?

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, June 2nd, 2025 There has never been a team quite like the 2025 Colorado Rockies. They are fundamentally broken on every level. The starting pitching has the highest ERA in the league by over a full point and the fewest strikeouts. The bullpen fares better, but was one of the more overworked units in baseball to...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Would Thairo Estrada make any difference for the 2025 Rockies?

Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Injuries are always unfortunate, yet they are a standard part of a Major League Baseball season. The fact is, injuries are inevitable and it’s important to have depth or reliable sources of relief when plans fall apart. When a team struggles, it’s easy to blame injuries, which certai...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Despite Thursday’s HR, McMahon’s performance is unacceptable in heart of lineup

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, May 2, 2025 Just over a month into the season, things have been worse than imagined for the Colorado Rockies. Blame the youth, blame the injuries, blame the really good pitcher the Rockies seem to face daily, blame the veterans for not playing better, blame Bud Black, blame Bill Schmidt, or blame Dick Monfort. Maybe it’s ...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Who else could be on the Rockies hot seat this season?

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Last Wednesday, I reviewed the Rockies' history of coaching and staff changes. It wasn’t an all-inclusive list, but the timing was opportune. To my surprise, the Rockies fired hitting coach Hensley Meulens and replaced him with interim hitting coach Clint Hurdle. Now, as much as I would like ...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."

• This Week in Purple: Trade Deadline Ahead!
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees
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• Monday Rockpile: State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: General Manager
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• MLB Draft 2025, Day 1, Rounds 1-3: Rockies preview and discussion thread
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• Friday Rockpile: Should the Rockies bring back DJ LeMahieu?
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• Tuesday Rockpile: At what point should the Rockies make front office changes?

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 On Sunday afternoon, the Washington Nationals announced surprising moves from our nation’s capital. They had relieved longtime manager Davey Martinez and even longer-time general manager and president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo of their duties, effective immediately. The moves them...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Hunter Goodman: All-Star

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, July 78, 2025 Major League Baseball announced on Sunday that Colorado Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman will be representing the Rockies at the 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, July 16. He was selected as the result of player balloting. Now in his third year with the Rockies and his first year ...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies are lucky to have York as a sponsor and need to learn from the partnership
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• Monday Rockpile: Should the Colorado Rockies bring in Thad Levine to conduct an external audit?

Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, June 30, 2025 Last week following the promotion of Walker Monfort to Colorado Rockies executive vice president, Troy Renck of the Denver Post weighed in. Among a number of recommendations, Renck wrote this: The Rockies must hire an external president for baseball operations, a window left open with Walker’s new title (Former Rangers, Twins and Rockies e...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: At what point should the Rockies make front office changes?
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• Monday Rockpile: Hunter Goodman: All-Star
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies are lucky to have York as a sponsor and need to learn from the partnership
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• Friday Rockpile: 40 games into his interim tenure, how does Schaeffer compare to Black?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, June 27, 2025 After eight seasons and 40 games, the Colorado Rockies fired Bud Black on May 11. The veteran manager who had served as an MLB manager for 18 years left the team worse than he found it when he took over in 2017. Of course, it wasn’t all his fault, but he couldn’t get the most...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Finding a trade partner for Ryan McMahon

Photo by Griffin Quinn/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, June 26, 2025 Following the blockbuster trade of Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, the trade season officially feels like it has started in Major League Baseball. We are a little over a month away from the July 31st deadline, and it’s understandable to predict the Colorado Rockies wil...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Rockies quietly leading MLB in triples this season
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• Monday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies are historically bad, but where is Dick Monfort?
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• Ryan McMahon traded to the New York Yankees
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• Monday Rockpile: Hunter Goodman: All-Star
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• Monday Rockpile: Should the Colorado Rockies bring in Thad Levine to conduct an external audit?
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• Monday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies voices are clamoring for change
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Warren Schaeffer is the right man for the Rockies in this moment

Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, May 13, 2025 It’s been roughly 40 hours since the news came down that Rockies’ manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond were relieved of their duties and that Warren Schaeffer and Clint Hurdle would be taking the reins in their places. The new coaching staff has begun to take shape: The Colorado Rockies' ...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Rockies players react to Bud Black firing

Chadd Cady-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, May 12, 2025 Yesterday following the Colorado Rockies 9-3 defeat of the San Diego Padres, the organization announced they had terminated the contracts of manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond. (Read more about the moves here.) Third base coach Warren Schaeffer will act as interim manager. In the Rockies clubhouse...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: Despite Thursday’s HR, McMahon’s performance is unacceptable in heart of lineup
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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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• Friday Rockpile: Should the Rockies bring back DJ LeMahieu?
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• Monday Rockpile: Should the Colorado Rockies bring in Thad Levine to conduct an external audit?
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Finding a trade partner for Ryan McMahon
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• Weekly Pebble Report: Zac Veen is back in Albuquerque. Now he must find his way back to the majors. (June 17th-June 23rd)
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies are lucky to have York as a sponsor and need to learn from the partnership
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• Monday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies are historically bad, but where is Dick Monfort?
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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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• 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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• 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?

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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• 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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