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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 27, Cole Messina

Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Messina is the only catcher on this edition of the PuRPs list 27. Cole Messina (93 points, 16 ballots) With Drew Romo ineligible for PuRPs voting this time around, Cole Messina is the only catcher we’ve got on this Purple Row Prospects list. The 6’0”, 230-pound catcher, who signed for a slot bonus of just over $1 million after getting ...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies need more improvement at four specific positions

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, January 22, 2025 The Colorado Rockies have been in a difficult situation since their back-to-back playoff seasons. It’s no mystery that dysfunction behind the scenes and an overall lack of robust talent at the big league level has left them comfortably at the bottom of the league’s stan...2025
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• Friday Rockpile: An early look at spring training for the Rockies

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, January 17, 2025 With an arctic blast descending on Colorado this weekend and temperatures reaching well below zero, it’s a good time to think about spring training in the Cactus League, specifically near Scottsdale, Arizona where temperatures average in the mid-70s in February and will be in the mid-60s this weekend. ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: numbers 42-36

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images These are the seven players who weren’t quite honorable mentions After revealing the players who appeared on a single ballot and then those who appeared on two or three ballots, it’s time to talk about seven players who were just outside Honorable Mention status as voted by the Purple Row electorate in the pre-season 2025 Purple Row P...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: Purple Row Prospects polling thread, pre-season 2025

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images It’s that time of year! It’s a new year, the hot stove has gone from a boil to a simmer, and the Rule 5 draft has concluded. That means it’s time for a new edition of the Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — Purple Row’s community farm system Top 30 ranking — to rank new additions to the system as well as prospects who rose and fell with their productio...2025
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• In 2024, Jacob Stallings stopped being a backup catcher

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Stallings played himself into the starting job — and a new contract. You’re reading the 2024 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at the season had by every player to play for the Rockies in 2024. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Re...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies need more improvement at four specific positions
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: numbers 42-36
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• Thursday Rockpile: Free agent deals for the Rockies to consider

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images There are a few players looking for new homes that may be worth a look Let me preface this article by saying that, yes, I know these aren't going to happen. After the news broke that the Rockies were looking to lower their payroll next season, any hopes of signing an upper-tier free agent were more or less dashed. I’m not saying they were going to be...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: The case for bringing back familiar faces

Kyle Ross-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, October 17, 2024 With the playoffs in full swing and rapidly nearing their conclusion, many are eagerly watching to see who will emerge victorious. At least, that’s the idea. In actuality, the thought of seeing the Dodgers or Yankees take home another World Series trophy is met with revulsion by a large contingent of MLB ...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Goodbye Charlie

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, September 24, 2024 Charlie’s on a vacation far away Come to Coors and talk it over. So many things that I want to say, You know I like my players a little bit Nazty I just wanna see your hits tonight I don’t wanna lose your hits tonight! 14 years is a long time to spend for a big league career...2024
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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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• Monday Rockpile: The Rockies’ future behind the plate is far from set

Photo by Dustin Bradford/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, September 16th, 2024 Early in the season I questioned what the Colorado Rockies were doing to facilitate the development of Hunter Goodman, who had been called up at the end of April but was still receiving only sporadic playing time. When he did play, Goodman largely donned a first baseman or...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: At 66 starts in a row, Toglia is becoming 1B staple

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Twenty-nine years ago this week, Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s record. He added three more seasons, playing every Baltimore game from May 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998. His record of playing 2,632 games in a row is not made to be brok...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: Seth Halvorsen’s meteoric rise culminates in stellar big league debut

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, September 2nd, 2024 From needing Tommy John surgery early in his college career with the University of Missouri to a fractured elbow that needed surgery in 2022 and a transfer to the University of Tennessee the year after, you would never know that big-bodied righty Seth Halvorsen’s meteoric rise hasn’t alway...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What does Charlie Blackmon’s retirement mean for the Colorado Rockies?
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Some takeaways from the Colorado Rockies prospects panel at RockiesFest

Sterlin Thompson, Zac Veen, Drew Romo, Chase Dollander, Gabriel Hughes, Jaden Hill, and Case Williams | Renee Dechert Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, February 6 A highlight of RockiesFest 2024 was the “Player Q&A: Rockies Prospects” panel, which brought together Chase Dollander (2023 mid-season #4 PuRP) Jaden Hill (2024 pre-season #19 PuRP) Gabriel Hughes (2023 mid-season ...2024
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"Hunter Goodman and Drew Romo will enter the Thunderdome during spring training, aiming to serve as the second catcher on the roster."

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"He notched his 200th strikeout of the season when he started the top of the third by striking out Colorado’s Drew Romo."

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"Grant Lavigne, Julio Carreras, and Drew Romo all had good nights at the plate, each tallying two hits."

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"The Rockies have wrapped up their draft business by agreeing to terms with catcher Drew Romo, per MLB."

• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 27, Cole Messina
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies need more improvement at four specific positions
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: numbers 42-36
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: Purple Row Prospects polling thread, pre-season 2025
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• In 2024, Jacob Stallings stopped being a backup catcher
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• The Rockies sign Jacob Stallings to a one-year deal

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images The catcher’s new contract is for 2025 and includes a mutual option for 2026. The Colorado Rockies announced early on Wednesday afternoon that they are in agreement with catcher Jacob Stallings on a one-year deal. Stallings, 34, signed with the Rockies prior to the 2024 season on a one-year, $1.5 million deal that included a mutual option for 2025. He declined t...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: Free agent deals for the Rockies to consider
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• Thursday Rockpile: The case for bringing back familiar faces
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Goodbye Charlie
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What does Charlie Blackmon’s retirement mean for the Colorado Rockies?
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 27, Cole Messina
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: numbers 42-36
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: Purple Row Prospects polling thread, pre-season 2025
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 49, Hunter Goodman

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Hunter Goodman fought for playing time all season, but might have found something to end the season. You’re reading the 2024 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at the season had by every player to play for the Rockies in 2024. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle t...2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 10 to 6

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images We’ve now entered the Top 10! We’re now in the top ten of the mid-season 2024 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list. Previously we had PuRPs 30-26, 25-21, 20-16 and 15-11. 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. For each player on the PuRPs list, I’ll includ...2024
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• The Youth Movement is on at 20th and Blake

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Rockies appear to finally - FINALLY - be committed to letting the kids play A couple weeks ago, my good buddy Evan Lang wrote a great article detailing the necessity of the Rockies moving on from some veterans in favor of their young players. This is a sentiment shared by many an embattled Colorado fan that has become disillusioned with the middlin...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The joy of hitting runs deep for Jared Thomas

Jared Thomas Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Quotes and stories in this article are excerpts from an extended 20-minute conversation I had with Jared Thomas on the Affected by Altitude podcast for Fans First Sports Network. You can find the full interview audio and YouTube video linked at the end. ★ ★ ★ Down in the heart of Texas, where football often reigns ...2024
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• Chris Sale dominates, Braves win 3-0

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Chris Sale did Chris Sale things as the Braves get a much needed win. In many ways Chris Sale has been the story for the Atlanta Braves in 2024, at least on the positive side. Him and Marcell Ozuna probably both have strong cases for it. And he was certainly the story tonight as he pitched seven shutout innings and led the Braves to a 3-0 victory over the Rockies T...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: At 66 starts in a row, Toglia is becoming 1B staple
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• The Day After: Drew Romo reflects on his MLB debut

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The “catcher of the future” made his MLB Debut on Todd Helton Night After the Colorado Rockies parted ways with veteran catcher and former All-Star Game MVP Elias Díaz on Wednesday, fans knew something was brewing. And that something was the long-awaited debut of Drew Romo (pre-season No. 7 PuRP). Since Romo was drafted 35th overall in the 2020 MLB Dr...2024
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• This Week in Purple: Forever Enshrined

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for August 17-18, 2024 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. ★ ★ ★ It’s the last stop on the H...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The Rockies in relation to stability and change

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 24, 2024 In 1948, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood before the British House of Commons and paraphrased Spanish philosopher George Santayana, saying, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” History is a fickle thing. It’s constantly being reevaluated, recontext...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile and Weekly Pebble Report: Chase Dollander headlines a high-performing 2023 starting pitcher class

Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 Despite being selected in the 2023 MLB Draft, RHP Chase Dollander (no. 2 PuRP) didn’t make his regular season professional debut for the Colorado Rockies until April 5, 2024. Although he did pitch a scoreless inning while starting the Spring Breakout game back in March, it’s o...2024
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• Chris Sale dominates, Braves win 3-0
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• Rockies To Release Elias Diaz, Promote Drew Romo
1:55pm: In place of Diaz, the Rockies are expected to select the contract of catching prospect Drew Romo, reports Thomas Harding of MLB.com. He’ll presumably slot into the Rockies’ primary catching role down the stretch and audition for a potential long-term gig behind the plate in Denver. 1:45pm: The Rockies are releasing catcher Elias Diaz,…...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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• Wednesday Rockpile: Good for Jon Gray

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, November 1, 2023 As the Texas Rangers continue to put on a show in the 2023 postseason I can only think of one thing: Good for Jon Gray. It’s always a little bittersweet seeing former Colorado Rockies move on to bigger and better things while finding success but something about Gray’s time in ...2023
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Is a Charlie Blackmon extension worth it?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Last month our own Renee Dechert made a case for signing Charlie Blackmon to a one-year extension, as did Evan Lang and myself on the Affected by Altitude podcast. The general consensus between the two cases deems that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to re-sign Blackmon, based on his leadershi...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What has to happen for the Rockies to “play .500 ball” in 2023
Photo by Cooper Neill/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 Dick Monfort has been known to give ambitious predictions for his team prior to the start of the new season. The pinnacle of the Monfort prediction was for the 2020 Rockies to improve on their 71-91 2019 record and to win 94 games. That season, the Rockies had a winning percent...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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• Tuesday Rockpile: Todd Helton and the “just vibes” Hall of Fame voting process

Photo By Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, January 2, 2024 As a college writing teacher, grading rubrics are a key part of my evaluative toolkit. A rubric sets the criteria that will be measured in an assignment and assigns weight to each of those criteria based on the degree to which a student succeeds in meeting those outcom...2024
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 27, Cole Messina
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• Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: numbers 42-36
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: Purple Row Prospects polling thread, pre-season 2025
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• In 2024, Jacob Stallings stopped being a backup catcher
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 49, Hunter Goodman
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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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• Monday Rockpile: Three low-risk, high-reward free agents for the Rockies to consider

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, November 27, 2023 The quiet off-season rolls on for the Colorado Rockies. There has been little-to-nothing in terms of news for both the team and most of MLB in the waning days of November. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners recently struck a deal, with the Snakes acquiring 3B Eugenio Suárez from the ...2023
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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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• Monday Rockpile: The at-bat that defines the Rockies’ 2023 season (plus Pebble Report)
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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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