Rockies social media team is phenomenal and that’s in large part due to Julian Valentin. He shares his favorite memories with Colorado, goes through his life as a professional soccer player and details his latest career working with athletes. Plus, the final installment of the Rockies Hall of Fame: relievers and catchers. “DNVR Exclusive: Two years anniversary of Walker’s Hall…
There are 1,000 reasons why Todd Helton should be the next representative of the Colorado Rockies in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. We list every one. Joined by Nick Bellopatrick, we break down the metrics that give greater context for why Helton is every bit as good as those first basemen in Cooperstown. Plus, the outfielder deserving of a…
Exactly two years ago, the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum stepped to the podium and announced on MLB Network that Larry Walker was going to Cooperstown. Not only had the suspense been building for the past decade since Walker was first put up for election by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, but the early…...
We know the sluggers, but several starters in Rockies history have had impactful careers with the franchise. Sam Bradfield from Purple Row looks at which rotation mates should be included in a team Hall of Fame. And the coaches for Double-A Hartford Yard Goats have been announced, including one that has already had success with both Sam Hilliard and Michael…
Noah Yingling from RoxPile and Call To The Pen shares his thoughts on which infielders deserve acknowledgement in a Colorado Rockies Hall of Fame. Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki and Vinny Castilla seem like obvious guarantees, but who else would join them? MLB and the Players’ Association met on Thursday. Nothing was worked out, but some promising developments transpired. And the…
Two days before the first game in franchise history, the Colorado Rockies signed a player many believed would be their first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dale Murphy was released by the Philadelphia Phillies in the early hours of April 3, 1993 and was just two home runs short of 400 for his career. (At the time, only…...
On Thursday, Manny Randhawa of MLB.com and StatCast held an event in coordination with the Rocky Mountain chapter of SABR over in LoDo at Blake Street Tavern to make the case for Larry Walker’s Hall of Fame candidacy. In his last year of eligibility to be elected on the writers’ ballot, the event began the unofficial kickoff campaign to get…...
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman pours over everything wrong with the Hall of Fame voting process that somehow managed to enshrine a pair of part-time players while leaving one of the best all-around talents of a generation, Larry Walker, looking like he will miss out altogether....
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman breaks down the recent free agency rumors surrounding the Colorado Rockies and comments made by Larry Walker and Dan O’Dowd regarding the Hall of Fame. Also, is Nolan Arenado the best slugger in MLB? Then, we dive deep into some new data in the automated strike zone debate. Is it…...
Maybe — just maybe — it’s the baseball writers who don’t count. We stand at an impasse where either baseball in Denver is a joke… or the Hall-of-Fame voting process is. What’s a guy gotta do around here? Specifically, around here. With the news that Larry Walker will, again, fall well short of the cutoff for enshrinement into Cooperstown—coming off a…...
In order for any Colorado Rockies to eventually be voted into the Hall of Fame, the BBWAA is going to have to get over its anti-Coors Field bias.
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman takes questions from Twitter about the Colorado Rockies remaining plans for the offseason, what it would take to land White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana, and how deserving Todd Helton and Larry Walker are for the Hall-of-Fame. Of course, it wouldn’t be a current Rockies conversation without some Ian Desmond…...
Larry Patrick joins the BSN Rockies Podcast to talk about Crosley Field, Micky Mantly, Yogi Berra, the '61 Yankees, and the history of the Colorado Rockies.
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