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…

DNVR Rockies beat reporters Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons battle for supremacy discussing various hot topics pertaining to the inhabitants of 2001 Blake Street as well all the scuttlebutt in and around the game of baseball. Just three months prior, it was questionable as to whether or not Major League Baseball would get started on the 2020 season. Now, we’ve…

The list of players to have hit .400 is short and illustrious. Wee Willie Keeler. Ty Cobb. Rogers Hornsby. Fourteen Hall of Famers, all of whom managed to bat .312 or above in their career, including Cobb’s career .366 batting average, decorate the list of the most elite hitters to play the game of baseball. The most recent and memorable…

As a part of our Quest for the Asterisk series, we’ll be taking a look at the players who will be most pivotal in taking the Colorado Rockies back to the postseason in 2020. Every team needs their stars to lead by example, both on the field and statistically. It’s a waste of time to tell you that Nolan Arenado…

On the Colorado Rockies version of Mt. Rushmore, there are three indisputable faces inscribed. The first belongs to Todd Helton, Mr. Rockie, who spent 17 seasons in the Majors and two years in the minors, all with Colorado. The second belongs to Larry Walker, the first and to this point still only, Hall-of-Famer in franchise history. The third belongs to…

Rockies fans fondly remember Yorvit Torrealba as the catcher who helped lead Colorado throughout the 2007 season and hit .500 in the playoffs on the way to the club’s first and only World Series. As a 13-year veteran in major league baseball, the Venezuelan-born backstop has been a valuable member to several contending organizations during his time, including five postseason…

The Washington Nationals entered the 2018 season with the same core of players that won the National League East by an impressive 20 games the previous year and were expected to do much of the same in the final year before Bryce Harper entered free agency. To think they would fall short of their ultimate goal once again only to win…

A rudimentary internet search reveals the first game played at Coors Field took place April 26, 1995. Dante Bichette stepped to the plate in the bottom of the 14th inning and launched a three-run walk-off homer into the night to christen the new stadium in the grandest way possible. However, that’s not entirely accurate. Before the delayed start of the…

Coming off a successful 2017 campaign that saw the Rockies make the playoffs for the first time in eight years by winning the second National League Wild Card, your pals in purple picked up right where they left off for Opening Day 2018: Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ. The 11-8 loss in the NL Wild Card game the previous season…

DENVER – Following a second-straight playoff appearance in 2018, Colorado lost a quartet of players to free agency at the combined cost of $54.75MM: Adam Ottavino (three-years, $27MM), DJ LeMahieu (two-years, $24MM), Carlos González (one-year, $2MM) and Gerardo Parra (one-year, $1.75 MM). This offseason, only two players will be free agents: C Drew Butera and 1B Yonder Alonso. Originally acquired…...

On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman continues his conversation with Jake Story about the odd connections between the Rockies and the Yankees and how MLB can do a better job of making its product appealing to a younger audience....

Scottsdale – A message was sent loud and clear the day the New York Yankees signed DJ LeMahieu without any resistance from the Colorado Rockies; It’s time for a new era in Denver at second base. The writing had been on the wall for some time, arguably reaching all the way back to when the club inked Charlie Blackmon to…...

DENVER – Sometimes a baseball season is 162 games. Sometimes, it’s just one. And then there are those times when after playing 162 games and then one more… and then one more… your season becomes defined by a three-game sample size in which you were handily swept by the Milwaukee Brewers in a very public display of offensive futility. Y’know,…

For their entire history until the moment that DJ LeMahieu arrived in 2012, the second base position had been a revolving door of question marks for the Colorado Rockies. Over the next seven seasons, LeMahieu emerged as easily the most prolific and beloved player to ever man the position for the franchise. He began slowly at first, surprising most of…...

LAS VEGAS – Colorado Rockies General Manager Jeff Bridich address a small group of reporters on Monday during the first official day of the MLB Winter Meetings. Bridich talked a lot about various processes in which the organization would abide and from which it would not waver. He also confirmed the areas of target for player acquisition will be at…...

On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman discusses award season and early free agency rumors including the eye-popping one that the Dodgers may have interest in DJ LeMahieu. That leads to an overall conversation about whether or not the Colorado Rockies can, or should, maintain their identity while searching for improvements and how long Jeff Bridich is…...

DENVER – To the surprise of absolutely nobody who is paying attention, the Colorado Rockies were awarded with two Gold Gloves on Sunday at third and second base. Nolan Arenado took home his historic sixth in a row, passing Larry Walker (5) for the most in franchise history. DJ LeMahieu received the honor for the third time, tying him with…...

On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman recounts most of the major points to come out of GM Jeff Bridich’s Friday press conference. All the big topics are discussed including Nolan Arenado’s contract, DJ LeMahieu and Adam Ottavino’s free agency, the club’s biggest area of need, and the philosophy regarding young players and looking outside the organization…...

DENVER – On Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball and Rawlings unveiled the finalists for the 2018 Gold Glove awards, marking defensive excellence at each position. With winners to be announced in early November, the biggest news out of this whole process for fans of the Colorado Rockies is not the two names from their club who are regulars on the…...