With billions of dollars in revenue lost by Major League Baseball and a collective bargaining agreement set to expire following 2021, sweeping changes throughout the sport loom large over the next 12 months. Somewhat coincidentally and entirely unfortunate, MLB is preparing to make grand changes to the landscape of Minor League Baseball, taking over the operation of the minors in…

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…

On Wednesday, Major League Baseball released the rosters for the six-team Arizona Fall League, the premier extended-season league for all 30 MLB team’s top prospects.  The Salt River Rafters have six Colorado Rockies representatives so far, with room for two more pitchers to eventually be added.  Only 1B Roberto Ramos is at Triple-A, while the other five players are…...

With apologies to Rookie level teams Boise and Grand Junction who begin their season after the MLB Draft in June, Thursday marks the first game of the season for four of the Rockies’ minor league affiliates on what Minor League Baseball calls Opening Night. Albuquerque Isotopes (AAA) The most interesting team in the organization is easily the Triple-A club as…...

DENVER – The biggest coaching question this offseason for the Colorado Rockies was centered on Duane Espy’s replacement after his three-year stint as hitting coach. Once Dave Magadan, a veteran of sixteen seasons as a player and seventeen more as a hitting coach, was selected in mid-December, the remaining interest dealt with coaches of the organizations younger players. Since then,…...

DENVER – When Garrett Hampson reported to the Rockies major league camp in Scottsdale in February at the start of the 2018 season, he was a 23-year-old infielder who had never played professional baseball above Class A. By October, he was on Colorado’s playoff roster and a key player off the bench, scoring what would be the final run of…...

SCOTTSDALE – As a 6’5” outfielder with an impressive combination of speed and power, it seems hard to believe that some scouts didn’t believe Sam Hilliard could make it as a hitter. After four progressive seasons in the Rockies organization, featuring All-Star selections each of the past three years, including this season where he was the runner-up in the Double-A…...

Yency Almonte has been named Eastern League Pitcher of the Week.

Colorado Rockies eighth ranked prospect, and once the No. 36 prospect in all of baseball, Ryan McMahon is off to a very fast start in Double-A Hartford. Last night he made history for the Yard Goats.

On this episode, Drew Creasman rants about the backlash to DJ LeMahieu's NL batting title and interviews David Dahl on his favorite memories from the last year.

It's the pair of position prospects who looked doomed to fall down a crowded Rockies farm system in the eyes of the pundits and prognosticators that are suddenly on the rise again.

Highly-touted Colorado Rockies outfield prospect David Dahl has shown improvements in all the right areas in his game in 2016 and now his MLB debut feels imminent.

The Colorado Rockies Double-A affiliate in the Eastern League, the Hartford Yard Goats, just debuted a new theme song. Warning it's an extremely catchy tune that will get stuck in your head.

The Colorado Rockies Double-A affiliate Hartford Yard Goats will play 52 straight road games to begin the 2016 season.

The internet has spoken, the new Colorado Roackies AA affiliate will be named the Hartford Yard Goats. Coming to a ballpark near you in 2016: the Hartford Yard Goats (@GoYardGoats). http://t.co/J5qTuPaVy7 pic.twitter.com/GrYTQlgTSI — MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 18, 2015 Other finalists of a name the team contest included; Hedgehogs, Praying Mantis, River Hogs and Whirlybirds but in the end it was…...