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• Weekly Pebble Report: Position Player Non-Roster Invitees, Part I

Colorado Rockies minor league report for Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 Welcome to the triumphant return of the Weekly Pebble Report for the 2025 season, your weekly Colorado Rockies minor league update here on Purple Row! Actual baseball is tantalizingly close, as pitchers and catchers reported for duty last week, and the full squad should have reported by the end of today. Sixty-three players—the ...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: How to watch spring training

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Today marks the Colorado Rockies’ first all-squad workout, which means that spring training is well and truly on. Bud Black has confirmed that everyone is in camp and healthy, save Sean Sullivan who is recovering from a hip procedure. But the good news is on F...2025
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (17 February 2025)

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Bud Black spoke with the media about Chase Dollander, Michael Toglia, and the potential catching competition On the eve of the first full-squad workout, Bud Black was the only member of the Colorado Rockies to speak with the media. But he talked about many different players, including Chase Dollander, Michael Toglia, and the catching crew. Of Dollande...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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• 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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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (14 February 2025)

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Today’s focus was on lefty relievers. Today’s notes are short since only Bud Black spoke with media. (Perhaps everyone else got their work in and headed out to enjoy Valentine’s Day.) At any rate, here’s what’s on the mind of the Colorado Rockies manager: During the offseason, Lucas Gilbreath had surgery to relieve some pressure from his neck-shoulder area and...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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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (13 February 2025)

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The focus today was on the ABS system as well as an experienced ace and a prospect who might take his place. Here’s the latest news from Colorado Rockies spring training. Pitchers and catchers reported on Tuesday, and today, they held their first workout. The first full-squad workout will take place on Tuesday, Feb....2025
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (13 February 2025)

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The focus today was on the ABS system as well as an experienced ace and a prospect who might take his place. Here’s the latest news from Colorado Rockies spring training. Pitchers and catchers reported on Tuesday, and today, they held their first workout. The first full-squad workout will take place on Tuesday, Feb....2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: A Nolan Jones resurgence is on the table for 2025

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, February 13, 2025 Aw yeah, baby! Football season has ended (well, fall football, anyway) and pitchers and catchers have officially begun working to ramp up for the regular season. It’s a wonderous time, as “best shape of their life” posts fly, and speculation abounds about who will make the cut and earn a...2025
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (12 February 2025)

Photo by John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images Bud Black discussed the health of the rotation while Zach Agnos described his approach to his first spring training. Every day during spring training, the Colorado Rockies send out short videos that feature coaching staff and players. We wanted share some short updates from training camp based on those interviews. Bud Black Rockies mana...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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• The Purple Row staff shares their favorite Charlie Blackmon memories

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Celebrate one last game with us... TONIIIIIIGHT! It’s official. Charlie Blackmon announced his retirement on Monday, and the final week of the season has been dedicated to honoring his illustrious 14-year career playing mile high baseball. There have been so many on- and off-field moments throughout Blackmon’s tenure that endeared him to so many fans...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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• 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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• Friday Rockpile: Monfort’s ‘best defense’ or just a better defense for the Rockies in 2025?
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• Thursday Rockpile: A Nolan Jones resurgence is on the table for 2025
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• Four reasons Rockies fans should be excited for the 2025 season

Photo by Isaiah Downing/MLB Photos via Getty Images Despite the lack of expectations, there are still plenty of reason for excitement around the 2025 Rockies Spring training is rapidly approaching with pitchers and catchers reporting on Thursday and the remainder of the squad joining on the 18th. Like every year, spring training brings excitement to baseball fans and the potential that co...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, February 11, 2025 No MLB team has had a better offseason than the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have signed a litany of stars: Roki Sasaki; Blake Snell; Teoscar Hernández; Tanner Scott; Michael Conforto . . . There are more, but I have limited space. View this post on Instagram ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 15, Sterlin Thompson

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The 31st-overall pick in 2022 remains the only compensation the Rockies chose to receive for Trevor Story 15. Sterlin Thompson (410 points, 28 ballots) Thompson is the first player so far in the Purple Row Prospects list who was named on every ballot. Fair or not, Thompson’s progress will be judged in part by Rockies fans by the fact ...2025
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• It’s time for a Rockies youth movement to occur on the mound

Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Help us Dol-Lander Kenobi, you’re our only hope Early last week, the team at Baseball America hit the Colorado Rockies in their annual farm system preview system leading up to the 2025 Cactus and Grapefruit League seasons. It was a fascinating insight to the Colorado system, namely focused on the Rockies’ two most recent top selections: RHP Chase Dollander from t...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: Wait... the Rockies aren’t worse than the White Sox, right?

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, February 6, 2025 Earlier this week, we received one of the most-discussed pieces of the offseason cycle: the 2025 iteration of Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA standings. Speculation abounds! These projections, while of course not iron-clad, are some of the most respected and studied in the baseball landscape, so ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 18, Luis Peralta

Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images After struggling in the minors, the lefty had a breakout 2024 season 18. Luis Peralta (306 points, 25 ballots) Peralta, who is indeed Milwaukee Brewers starter Freddy Peralta’s younger brother, is the highest debutant on this edition of the Purple Row Prospects list. The 24-year-old lefty reliever was acquired in the Jalen Beeks trade near...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: A Nolan Jones resurgence is on the table for 2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Are the Los Angeles Dodgers ruining baseball?
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• Thursday Rockpile: Nothing about the 2023 Rockies is working
Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, April 20th, 2023 When Colorado Rockies fans scoffed at owner Dick Monfort’s proclamation that the team could play .500 baseball this season, I don’t think any of them imagined just how bad things would be this early on. “It’s tough to watch,” said Rockies play-by-play announcer Drew Goodman during the team’s...2023
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• Wednesday Rockpile: The pressures to be champions now rest on the Colorado Rockies
Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, June 14, 2023 I’m not much of a basketball fan. Despite this fact, I spent as much time as I could following the Denver Nuggets' journey through the playoffs en route to their first NBA Championship in their 47-year history. I jumped up and down like a spring in celebration in the living room with my 38-year-old brother and my 13-year-old nephew as w...2023
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• Elias Díaz named 2023 All-Star MVP
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The Rockies catcher hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning Colorado Rockies catcher Elias Díaz etched his name in the history books on Tuesday night as not just the first Rockies catcher to play in the All-Star Game but also the first Rockie to be named All-Star MVP thanks to a game-deciding home run. Trailing 2-1 in the top of the eighth i...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: Could changes in the game alter how the Rockies operate?
Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, April 14, 2023 With rule changes and exciting young players, I entered the 2023 Colorado Rockies season with some excitement, in addition to the perennial happiness baseball brings—even knowing the Rockies are likely to be a sub-.500 team. After the opening homestand at Coors Field, all of those feelings remain true; however, that was also a weird homes...2023
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• Charlie Blackmon placed on bereavement list, Elehuris Montero recalled, and other roster moves
John Leyba-USA TODAY Sports The Rockies made several roster moves ahead of their road trip with Charlie Blackmon going to the bereavement list. As they prepare to kick off a seven game road trip, the Colorado Rockies announced a series of roster moves Monday afternoon prior to the series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Right fielder and designated hitter Charlie Blackmon has been ...2023
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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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• Monday Rockpile: Rockies fans are showing they’re tired of watching bad baseball (plus Pebble Report)
Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, May 1, 2023 The Colorado Rockies mercifully snapped a seven-game losing streak at Coors Field with a win on Sunday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. That was their only victory in the series against the Snakes, however, and the team’s lone series victory of the season was accomplished on the road in Cleveland...2023
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• Thursday Rockpile: With their 100th loss, the Rockies must reconsider their coaching staff

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, September 28th, 2023 The inevitable has come to pass, and the 2023 Colorado Rockies have not only cemented their worst record in franchise history, but have also reached the 100-loss mark for the first time in franchise history. With this unfortunate and inauspicious landmark reached, the Rockies front office ...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies need a new source of revenue

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, November 15, 2024 Another Rockies offseason once again offers the perennial playbook of articles and podcasts: Free agent fantasy wish lists, dreams trades, front office frustrations, prospect projections, stat analysis, and, eventually, roster projections. Rockies fans are used to winters filled with inaction. With the t...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Will Todd Helton be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2024? (We’ll know in a few hours.)

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Tuesday, January 23 Today, we’ll know if Todd Helton will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He should. His teammates are clear in making a case for the former first baseman. As former Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki told Patrick Saunders, “He was a fierce competitor and that’s what sticks out the mos...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: A Nolan Jones resurgence is on the table for 2025
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• Friday Rockpile: How should Rockies fans manage expectations in 2025?

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, January 3, 2025 Another year is here and another season is on the horizon. While hope certainly springs eternal, it’s also important to adjust the hope settings to somewhere between “not as bad as the 2024 White Sox” and playoff contention. Last year, I turned to Clint Hurdle’s advice as my expectations guide...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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• Should the Colorado Rockies explore signing Paul Goldschmidt?

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Since the Colorado Rockies have not yet revealed the team’s manager for the 2025 season, let’s turn our attention to some roster speculation Katie Woo broke the news during the last week of the season: The St. Louis Cardinals would not attempt to bring back former 2022 National League Most Valuable Player ...2024
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• Thursday Rockpile: The Rockies need to combat growing fan apathy
Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, February 9th, 2023 The Colorado Rockies are rapidly approaching their 30th anniversary season. Pitchers and catchers report next week, spring training is less than a month away, and baseball is truly on our doorstep. However, there has been a noticeable lack of fanfare both in the Mile High City and from the Rockies themselves. 30 years is a big mile...2023
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• Carlos Gonzalez Rediscovering MLB Stardom with Blistering 2nd Half
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