Since I began writing about baseball in 2013, and for the six years that followed, whenever I was asked the semi-regular question about who was the most underrated player in baseball, I never hesitated in my answer: it was DJ LeMahieu. It was. As the fates would have it, LeMahieu became a free agent after the Colorado Rockies most successful…

A part of us has been missing. The cold of winter always brings hibernation to the baseball soul. Then, as short, dark days stretch into bristling spring with mornings that bloom into warm summer nights, we thaw out to the sounds of cracking bats and popping gloves and roaring crowds. After a brief hint of a taste of that normalcy,…

“The image of officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on the neck of George Floyd, the gruesome murder of a black man in the streets at the hands of a police officer, broke my coping mechanism. Suppressing my emotions became impossible.” On Monday night, Colorado Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond announced that he will be stepping away from the game he loves in…

The commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, should resign. Unless he can pull off some miracle solution that creates an amicable end to the current bitter negotiations and brings about a season that most involved can be happy with, his short time as steward of the game must come to an end. Take a moment to ask yourself this…

Welcome to a new series here at DNVR that we are calling Diamond Details. About once a week, more often if it is called for, we will be assembling some fun facts and stats about your Colorado Rockies to make sure that not even the finest of details escape your attention. Feel free to comment below with any bits of…

When Trevor Story stepped to the plate on Opening Day of the 2016 season, it appeared as if the final representative from the defunct Casper Ghosts would make his Major League debut. The second-youngest player from the final Ghosts club that packed up for Grand Junction in 2012 is still just 27-years-old, but anyone Story’s age seems hard-pressed to…

Despite a cavalcade of incredibly entertaining postseason games, it has been a brutal and disastrous finish to the season for Major League Baseball in 2019. Scandals litter the headlines, calling into question some of the fundamental integrity of the game during a time when people across the globe are otherwise celebrating the World Series, the showcase of the very…

Let me introduce you to Boston-based startup UmpScores; this will change the way we watch baseball. For so long, such a fundamental part of the game – the calling of balls and strikes – has been relegated to an odd kind of ambiguity. Imagine if the NFL refused to even try to accurately measure yards or the the NBA…

DENVER – Nobody has a crystal ball, so projecting how young baseball players will eventually turn out can oftentimes feel a bit like throwing darts at an ocean-sized board. One such Rockies prospect makes the other 29 MLB teams consider what could have been. There is still a chance we all look back one day on the career of Sam…

DENVER – The result of every Colorado Rockies game counts… until it doesn’t. Unfortunately, plenty of fans and analysts around the game seem yet undecided on this issues. Sure, there has been no effort to move the club (thank God) but the folks in charge of talking on TV and/or voting for awards to celebrate the very best our…

With roughly 15,000 high school baseball programs around the U.S. and over 400,000 players, only two percent of the best talent in any given hometown get the opportunity to continue their playing career at a Division I college. From there, those gifted enough to have a college career – whether at a junior college or NAIA school – will…

DENVER – The worst kept secret in Major League Baseball this season is that something is clearly, and significantly, different about the baseballs. The Wall Street Journal recently published an exposé in which they detail the discrepancies that have led to an all-time home run record for a single-season on pace to be absolutely shattered. Set to pass 6,800 dingers…

America’s pastime, like the country herself, has always been a beacon for what we can be when we embrace change. It is built into the very fabric of our Constitution so that it can be amended to reflect change. Some of our first collective words were a promise to forever strive to be more perfect. One of the greatest…

Nobody ever brought a baseball glove to the ballpark because it just completed their outfit. It’s a device meant for one thing: catching baseballs. And if your family happens to have season tickets in a spot just beyond an outfield wall in fair territory, like Reif Faulkner’s does, you could easily find yourself in an actual position to impact the…

New York, NY – On Sunday, the late Roy Halladay will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame to be enshrined with the class of 2019 at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, NY. In becoming the first player posthumously elected by the Baseball Writer’s Association of American since Roberto Clemente in 1973, he will be the only one…

The last three baseball games could not have felt much worse for the Colorado Rockies. But they absolutely could have been worse. Losing three in a row to the team with the best record in baseball in their house is frustrating but to lose all three in walk-off fashion is a downright gutpunch. Throw in that each game featured…

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Sunday’s comeback of epic proportions, a five-run rally against rival Arizona in the bottom of the eighth – the first such comeback in nearly five years – was precisely what Colorado needed. Not just because it was against another NL West squad or because they avoided a sweep. But it was how they strung together six at bats without trying…

DENVER – David Dahl and Ryan McMahon have been activated ahead of a seven-game homestand which is huge and timely since they’ll be facing several RHP this week. The Rockies’ offense should gain a boost with a return to Coors Field and the upgrade of two bench players for two starters. Dahl was hitting better than anyone on the team…