What Is the Colorado Rockies Plan for 2025?

Thanks to decisions revealed at the trade deadline, we have some ideas.

Brenton Doyle’s Excellent 2024

This season, he’s become a complete player

Let’s Talk About Dakota Hudson

He’s probably not having the 2024 he’d hoped for.

Let’s Talk About the Colorado Rockies & the Trade Deadline

Will the Rockies be sellers this year?

What’s the Deal with Jake Cave?

He was signed as a fourth outfielder, but that hasn’t been the case.

12 Weeks in: The Colorado Rockies by the Numbers

How are they faring so far?

How Good Is Ezequiel Tovar?

He was good in 2023, and he’s getting better in 2024.

Comparing Four Colorado Rockies with Where They Were a Year Ago

What does this reveal about the 2024 Rockies?

The Colorado Rockies Are Winning? What Happened?

Share Rockies Pitch Remember when the Colorado Rockies were breaking all those records for historically bad teams? There was this on Opening Day: 14 runs for AZ in the 3rd are tied for the 4th-most by a team in an inning since 1900, behind only: 6/18/1953 BOS, 7th:

Let’s Talk About the Colorado Rockies Catchers

Share Rockies Pitch Perhaps you’ve missed it, what with all the losing going on with the 16-32 Colorado Rockies, but their catching corps has been quite effective. Take this from Brooks Gate: team ranking in offensive production, by position (weighted runs created) pic.twitter.com/NbtI5UgYsm — BrooksGate (@Brooks_Gate)

Should the Colorado Rockies Trade Ryan McMahon?

Share Rockies Pitch Yesterday, Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors posed the question: Would the Colorado Rockies be willing to move third baseman Ryan McMahon at the trade deadline? As Franco writes: In aggregate, McMahon looks like a solid bet to accrue three to four wins above replacement per season

One Month in, The Colorado Rockies by the Numbers

Share Rockies Pitch About a month ago, I looked at some numbers that indicated where the Colorado Rockies were early in the season. Clearly, there wasn’t enough data to be meaningful, but it created a snapshot of where the Rockies were at that time. Now, we’re roughly a

What’s Up with Charlie Blackmon?

Subscribe to Rockies Pitch Although we’re still in small-sample-size territory — but leaving soon — it’s safe to conclude at this point that we know the Rockies are not a very good baseball team. Their 7-24 record is the first indicator. Plus, this team just keeps making history — and not

How Are “The Kids” Faring in Year Two?

Share Rockies Pitch For the last three years, fans have begged the Colorado Rockies to “let the kids play.” Last year, the Rockies gave fans what they wanted with three rookies catching national attention: Brenton Doyle, Nolan Jones, and Ezequiel Tovar. We’re now 26 games into the 2024 season,

Let’s Talk About How Good Victor Vodnik’s Pitching Has Been

Share Rockies Pitch In case you’ve missed it, Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Victor Vodnik is having quite a spring. As it turns out, Fox Sports’ MLB staff has noticed. That’s some pretty elite company Vodnik is hanging out with. Granted, it’s early in the season, and we’

What Do We Know About the 2024 Colorado Rockies So Far?

Share Rockies Pitch Granted, it’s early, and we’re clearly in small-sample size territory, which means little over the course of a season but can also provide a sense of how a team is getting started. The Colorado Rockies are now 3-10, working on one of the worst starts

The Colorado Rockies Have To Get Better, Right?

Subscribe to Rockies Pitch It’s safe to say this was not the opening to 2024 the Colorado Rockies had hoped for. In their first seven games, they’ve got a disappointing 1-6 with the Arizona Diamondbacks looking like they’re ready to pick up where they left off in

Colorado Rockies 2024 Preview

Share Rockies Pitch Happy Opening Day! Since it‘s the first full day of the 2024 baseball season, publishing Rockies Pitch a day early seemed appropriate. Before turning to the Colorado Rockies 2024 season, it’s worth taking a step back to remember what happened in 2023. Their 103-loss season

The Colorado Rockies Have Traded for Greg Jones. Now What?

The news dropped Thursday morning: Sources: The Rays are acquiring pitcher Joe Rock from the Rockies in exchange for SS/OF Greg Jones. — Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) March 21, 2024 The Colorado Rockies also designated Sam Hilliard for assignment. The move came as a bit of a surprise given the Rockies’

Should Dakota Hudson Make the Colorado Rockies Starting Rotation?

That Colorado Rockies pitching failed spectacularly in 2023 is an accepted fact. Pitching at elevation is always difficult, and the Rockies began the season with a rotation with little room for error. Add to that Tommy John surgeries for Germán Márquez and Antonio Senzatela as well as a skull fracture

Which Rockie Is Having the Best Spring Training: Elehuris Montero or Michael Toglia?

Subscribe to Rockies Pitch Let’s start with the obvious: Spring training games mean nothing. Absolutely nothing. However, we know that Elehuris Montero and Michael Toglia are competing for playing spots in the Colorado Rockies’ “six-man platoon.” Both general manager Bill Schmidt and manager Bud Black have been clear that

Hunter Goodman Stays Ready

Subscribe to Rockies Pitch Earlier this week on Purple Row, I wrote about the Colorado Rockies’ “six-man platoon.” A key, if overlooked, member of that arrangement is Hunter Goodman, a catcher-turned-outfielder-and-first-baseman known for his powerful swing. If you’ve lost track of him — after all, the Rockies used a lot

What We Learned from Bill Schmidt’s Cactus League Presser

Subscribe to Rockies Pitch On Tuesday, the Cactus League held its media day with various front office personnel taking questions. Among those were Bill Schmidt, who spoke with beat writers about the 2024 Colorado Rockies. While never one to be overly loquacious, here’s some of what Schmidt had to

No, the Colorado Rockies Did Not “Fail” the Offseason

Perhaps you remember The Athletic, a website that covers sports — but not any Denver teams, despite the fact that the Mile High City is home to the NBA champion Denver Nuggets and one of the greatest players the game has ever seen in addition to a recent Stanley Cup champion