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• State of the Position, 2025: Bullpen

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images It’ll likely be a season of growing pains for the young Rockies relief corps Well, here we are again. We once again enter the season with multiple questions lingering over the Colorado Rockies bullpen. They once again found themselves trailing behind every other team in baseball in terms of ERA, hits allowed, WHIP... you get the gist. It was another rou...2025
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• This Week in Purple: Positional Battles

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for March 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’re now in the thick of spring tr...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: Gabriel Hughes’ time is close

Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, March 6, 2025 Isn’t spring training just the best? Getting to see the boys of summer go through the reps and work of preparing for another grueling Major League Baseball season is an exciting prospect, as hope still permeates through the minds and hearts of fans around the world. The harsh ...2025
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• Braves News: Sean Murphy Injury, Hector Neris, more

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images A not so fun Monday for the Braves Sean Murphy just cannot catch a break. In 2024, he went down with an injury in the first game of the season. Now, in 2025, he will miss the start of the season again as he out 4-6 weeks with a cracked rib. It is simply bad luck for Murphy, who many are hoping will have a bounce back season this year...2025
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• Pirates claim ex-Rockies reliever Lawrence
The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed right-hander Justin Lawrence off waivers from the Colorado Rockies on Monday....2025
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• Pirates Place Johan Oviedo On 60-Day Injured List
The Pirates placed right-hander Johan Oviedo on the 60-day injured list. That opens a 40-man roster spot for fellow righty Justin Lawrence, whose previously-reported waiver claim from the Rockies is now official. The news comes as something of a surprise. Oviedo had undergone Tommy John surgery in November of 2023. He missed the entire 2024…...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: A too-early look at who could miss the Opening Day roster

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, March 3rd, 2025 With ten games under their belt so far in spring training, the Colorado Rockies are off to a strong 7-3 start. The Rockies made their first round of camp cuts on Sunday and none of the five names were terribly unexpected. Right-handed reliever Tommy Doyle—signed to a minor league deal this o...2025
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• Rockies bullpen endures another shakeup with key bullpen injury

One day after placing Justin Lawrence on waivers, the Colorado Rockies bullpen underwent another transformation on Sunday....2025
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• Colorado Rockies spring training game no. 11 thread: Logan Gilbert vs Germán Márquez

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images A healthy Germán Márquez makes his second start of the spring against our friends from the Pacific Northwest After the Colorado Rockies had their first real bad performance of spring training against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, they will try to rebound against the Seattle Mariners. The home team at Salt River Fields at Talking St...2025
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• RHP Justin Lawrence placed on waivers

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images After struggling in 2024 and early this spring, the Rockies have placed the righty on irrevocable waivers. The Colorado Rockies placed right-handed reliever Justin Lawrence on irrevocable waivers on Saturday afternoon, as first reported by MLB insider Jon Heyman. Lawrence, 30, was originally drafted by the Rockies out of Florida’s Daytona State College in 20...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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• Colorado Rockies spring training game no. 3 and no. 4 thread

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Rockies are playing split squad games against the Athletics and Brewers After their second straight win in February against the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday, the Colorado Rockies are playing their third and fourth games of spring training today in split squad fashion. One squad is headed to Hohokam Stadium in Mesa, Arizona to take on the Sacre...2025
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• Will the Braves roll the dice with their bullpen?

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Lord, I was born a gamblin’ man... I used to travel a lot for work. Like 80% of the time. It was a lot. When you are out on the road like that, everyone thinks it must be a ton of fun – fun new cities, new experiences, new food, etc. In reality, there’s a decent shot you end up in Warsaw, Indiana in January where there are no museu...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Rowland Rockies Stadium Tour

Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, September 19, 2024 I was eight years old when it was announced that Colorado would be awarded a baseball franchise. Born and raised in the state of Colorado, up until that point, I was naturally a fan of the Bash Brother-led Oakland Athletics, with a father who grew up in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado as a fan of the Big Red Machine in the 70s. My...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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"The Colorado Rockies placed right-handed reliever Justin Lawrence on irrevocable waivers on Saturday afternoon, as first reported by MLB insider Jon Heyman."

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"Rockies relievers scheduled today: Peter Lambert, Tyler Kinley, Jaden Hill and Justin Lawrence."

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"Mears was lifted, and Cody Bellinger hit this sac fly off Justin Lawrence [VIDEO]."

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"Reliever Justin Lawrence was optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque to open space on the active roster."

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"The Rockies announced a few roster moves today, recalling right-handed pitchers Justin Lawrence and Antonio Santos, while optioning infielder Rio Ruiz and designating right-hander Chi Chi Gonzalez for assignment."

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"Rockies’ reliever Justin Lawrence has been suspended without pay for 80 games, MLB announced today."

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"The Rockies reached into their past to help righty relief pitcher Justin Lawrence possibly become a key part of their future."

• State of the Position, 2025: Bullpen
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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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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (15 February 2025)

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post Today’s main course was comebacks (with a side of catching philosophy) This was a full day of interviews, including Bud Black, Justin Lawrence, Nolan Jones, and Jacob Stallings. Bud Black Interviewer Thomas Harding asked Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black questions about a range of players attempting to make a comeback in 2025. Of Justin Lawrence, ...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Pitching storylines to watch in spring training

Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Rejoice baseball fans, the time is upon us for pitchers and catchers to report to camp to kick off spring training! Understandably, expectations are low for the Colorado Rockies entering the 2025 season, after all, they have lost 100 games in back-to-back seasons are are pr...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Three free agent relievers the Rockies could consider

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, January 29, 2025 One of the notable pieces of information to come from Rockies Fest last weekend was the reveal that should the team make more signings, it would likely come in the bullpen. Folks in the comments of Tuesday’s Rockpile were quite vocal about their opposition to this idea and understandably so. The...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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• 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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• Wednesday Rockpile: Troy Tulowitzki’s Hall of Fame case

Photo by Jacob de Golish/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, November 20, 2024 The National Baseball Hall of Fame released the ballot for the 2025 cycle on Monday, with a cast of characters both returning and debuting for the first time on the ballot. The new batch of candidates features a no-brainer like Ichiro Suzuki while featuring a slew of debatable players who...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Rule-5 protections loom over the Rockies roster

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, October 16, 2024 The Colorado Rockies will have to make many decisions this winter as they try to reconstruct and rebuild their way to contention. They have already settled their first matter of business, extending Bud Black to serve as the manager for one more year, bringing to the table...2024
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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 54, Elehuris Montero

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Montero’s 67 games for the Rockies didn’t go so well Welcome to the 2024 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time 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 Reference’s WAR (rWAR). It’s not...2024
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• Luis Peralta and some Rockies pitching trends

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The young, exciting lefty talent is part of a growing trend within the Rockies’ pitching scouting and development. It’s well documented that the Colorado Rockies have tried all sorts of pitching ideas and philosophies throughout their now more than three decades of existence, most not turning out all that well, even after experiencing initial success. Even...2024
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• BABIP beats bombs, Braves blitzed in 9-8 loss

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Braves hit four homers and lose to a .500+ BABIP-against The Braves snapped their second six-game losing streak since the All-Star Break yesterday. They had a six-run lead heading into the eighth today, and thanks to the four homers they crushed, it looked like things might be on the upswing, especially with them recapturing a playoff spot yesterday. B...2024
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• Monday Rockpile: A too-early look at who could miss the Opening Day roster
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• Monday Rockpile: Where are these former members of the 2024 Rockies?
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (15 February 2025)
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Six things we learned at Rockies Fest
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• Tuesday Rockpile: What do the early Steamer projections suggest about the 2025 Colorado Rockies?

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, November 12, 2024 We are fast moving into 2025 MLB projections, and last week, FanGraph’s 2025 Steamer rankings dropped. In case you need a refresher, MLB.com describes Steamer as follows: Like other projection systems, Steamer uses past performance and aging trends to develop a future projection for playe...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Rowland Rockies Stadium Tour
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• Cubs 6, Rockies 3: Javier Assad and the comeback Cubs do it again

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The team came from behind with some timely hitting, and got some excellent relief work. This afternoon started out weirdly when Marcus Stroman barely got through three innings and the Cubs went behind and looked pretty weak sauce against Chris Flexen, a guy who came into the game with an ERA north of 7. But the persistent Cubs scored single runs in the fi...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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• Rockies’ Justin Lawrence Suspended For PED Use
Rockies’ reliever Justin Lawrence has been suspended without pay for 80 games, MLB announced today. He tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, a performance-enhancing substance. Lawrence, 25, was selected to the Rockies’ 40-man roster last offseason, although he has yet to make his MLB debut. After breaking out with a strong season in High-A and in the Arizona Fall…...2020
• Monday Rockpile: The source for the Rockies’ best stretch of the season (plus Pebble Report)
Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, May 8, 2023 Say what you will about the 2023 Colorado Rockies as a whole, but winning six-of-seven games is a successful stretch no matter who you are. That’s the timeline we all currently occupy as the Rockies salvaged their final game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the last day of April, then swept the Milwa...2023
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• Tuesday Rockpile: The Colorado Rockies have 71 games remaining. Now what?
Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, July 11, 2023 That the Colorado Rockies have not had an especially good 2023 season is clear. In addition to their record, consider some of the data: Four of five starting pitchers have suffered significant injury. The pitching staff has the second-lowest fWAR at 2.5. Only Oakland’s is lower. They have the thir...2023
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• Cubs vs. Rockies at Mesa preview, Saturday 3/9, 2:05 CT

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs face the Rox for the second time this spring The Cubs made three more roster cuts Saturday, all non-roster invitees: Chris Clarke, Sam McWilliams and Brad Wieck were all reassigned to minor-league camp. Wieck, in particular, might help the Cubs down the road, but for now he needs more reps, which he'll get in minor-league camp. Also, if the Cubs seek ...2024
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The time is right for Coco Montes to join the Rockies
Photo by Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Entering the start of the 2023 season, the Rockies had to quickly pivot plans at second base in the wake of Brendan Rodgers’s shoulder injury in spring training. Initially, it was a fairly simple plan to move Ryan McMahon back and let Elehuris Montero take over. Unfortunatel...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: Gabriel Hughes’ time is close
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• Colorado Rockies spring training game no. 11 thread: Logan Gilbert vs Germán Márquez
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• RHP Justin Lawrence placed on waivers
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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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• Wednesday Rockpile: Breaking down the Rockies Opening Day roster

Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, March 27, 2024 After roughly six weeks of rigorous spring training action and evaluation, the Opening Day roster has finally become clear after lots of speculation and theorizing, Now, as we wait for the regular season to begin tomorrow in Arizona, how will the Colorado Rockies initially set up for the 162 game marathon? Catcher (2): Elias Díaz, Jaco...2024
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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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• Ranking the Rockies: No. 25, Daniel Bard

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports The veteran reliever dazzled last season, but his future appears clouded following a tough 2023 Welcome to the 2023 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2023. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: This is what an overworked Rockies bullpen looks like
Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, July 27, 2023 As it turns out, only having three starting pitchers just isn’t a sustainable model. It’s like expecting a ceiling fan to keep a house cool on a 98-degree day. It’s better than nothing, but it just can’t be asked to do that much work. It will just be hot and uncomfortable, which is precisely wha...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: Feltner’s ‘reckless confidence’ needs to become contagious
Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, April 21, 2023 The eight-game skid is over. Thursday’s 5-0 over the Phillies was a welcome relief. Ryan Feltner, Justin Lawrence, and Pierce Johnson combined to hold the Phillies to six hits and struck them out 11 times. That made the difference. Entering the game, Feltner had given up 13 runs in 13 1/3 innings...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: 5 pitchers, 2 position players, 2 coaches representing Rockies in WBC
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, February 10, 2023 After months of speculation, the World Baseball Classic rosters were finally announced on Thursday and the Rockies will be represented by seven players and two coaches. The total of nine players and coaches are on nine different teams, which could mean some interesting Rockies matchups — es...2023
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