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The offense was there, but the pitching wasn’t today.  Jeff Salazar had the big game for the Rockies with the bat though.  He went two for two with a homerun and three RBIs.  Willy Taveras had two runs and Matt Holliday had two hits and an RBI.
Josh Fogg threw two shutout innings but most everyone else […]

Matt Holliday and Brad Hawpe had big games at the plate today as they pummelled the White Sox in their spring opener.  Holliday had the only homerun of the game and he went two for three with two RBIs and two runs.  Hawpe went three for three with two runs and two RBIs.  Not to […]

The Rockies signed outfielder Steve Finley to a minor league deal.  If Finley makes the team, it’ll be the eighth team that Finley has played for.   I think he’s a long shot to make the team and I’m not quite sure what the Rockies are thinking but maybe he’ll provide some incentive and leadership for […]

In order to boost his homerun power, Todd Helton showed up to camp noticably bulkier after a vigorous weight training regimen during the offseason.  He also wants to gloss over the trade that fell through that would have sent him to Boston as well.  It sure would be nice to see Helton in MVP form […]

Jeff Sackman at Beyond the Boxscore recently put up his preview for the Rockies in 2007. I like his synopsis where he thinks the Rockies are getting close, but if a few things go wrong, it could completely derail things.  I think the Rockies are a couple of years away but once their prospects start […]

Yesterday, we looked at how the Rockies built back up their system.  Now we get to see the products of that system in Baseball America’s list of the top ten Rockies’ prospects.  Topping the list is the Rockies’ top draft pick in 2005, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.  He didn’t spend much time in the minors and […]

This is a great story on how the Rockies have rebuilt their minor league system.  It’s subscription only at Baseball America so I don’t want to go into too much detail but this was a great look back at the past several years of activity that the Rockies have taken to spruce up their farm […]

Beyond the Boxscore recently profiled Rockies’ second base prospect Corey Wimberly.   He’s still a couple of  years away, but this is a guy who’s worth keeping an eye on. 

Solid hitting and questionable pitching is what defines the Rockies heading into 2007.  With Todd Helton and Matt Holliday, the Rockies definitely have a solid one-two punch in their lineup but with Jeff Francis topping a rotation that features medicore talent like Rodrigo Lopez and Byung-Hyun Kim, it’s hard to expect the Rockies to compete […]

Having a set closer is not a commodity that a lot of teams have, and despite how the bad the Rockies bullpen was last year, they at least have Brian Fuentes to rely on in the ninth inning.  This is a nice column at MLB.com that talks about the Rockies bullpen, which is anchored by Fuentes.
PECOTA […]

Chris Ianetta may not be the best fielding catcher behind the plate, but he’s shown he can hit.  And in a column on catching prospects at Baseball Prospectus, they rank Ianetta as being the catching prospect with the most upside in 2007.
His PECOTA card looks really nice.  His weighted mean average has him at .291/.379/.481 […]

The Rockies settled their last arbitration eligible case when they signed Josh Fogg to a one year, $3.625 million deal.  Fogg had a rough year even as far as Rockies’ starters go.  He had a 5.49 ERA and a 1.55 WHIP despite having a winning record (11-9).  His best season was his rookie year way […]

It sounds like the deal that would have sent Todd Helton to the Red Sox is now indefinitely on hold.  The Red Sox were offering up Mike Lowell and Julian Tavarez while the Rockies were more interested in prospects like Dave Hansen.  I have to give the Rockies credit for sticking to their guns here […]