The Colorado Rockies record is pretty ugly but the starting pitching has been the opposite and some young hitters are showing promise. Drew Goodman joins us to break it all down.
When Samuel L. Jackson arrived on screen for the first time as Nick Fury in 2008’s Iron Man, letting us know that, “there was an idea,” audiences worldwide were intrigued and fascinated but could not truly have known what was yet to come. After a few more successful movies in what would become known as the MCU, the entire project…...
The Colorado Rockies are not set up to win a whole lot of games in 2021. It’s baseball, and just about anything is possible, but on paper the boys in purple have one of the steepest uphill climbs in front of them if they want to shock the MLB world. As we’ve often discuss on the DNVR Rockies Podcast, though,…...
From Mike Trout and Fernando Tatis Jr. to Gerrit Cole and Nolan Arenado, the DNVR crew drafts the superstar MLB players they believe most likely to have huge 2021 seasons.
Drew Goodman joins us for the chatter coming out of Colorado Rockies Spring Training. The outside expectations may be low, but these players believe in themselves.
The Colorado Rockies are just terrible. You’ve heard it. You’ve read it. In fact, you probably came to that conclusion long before you had to hear it or read it. For the last 222 games of competition, they’ve been one of the worst teams in all of Major League Baseball. On top of that, they haven’t signed any key free…
Who in MLB is most likely to be an alien? And how is believing in aliens like being a sports fan? Plus, Drew and Patrick muse on the real reasons for remaining a Colorado Rockies fan.
Trevor Story and Matt Holliday square off in another round of All-Time Colorado Rockies Home Run derby, then Drew and Patrick take an updated look at the organizational depth chart before celebrating the career of Dick Allen.
Through a series of ill-conceived roster transactions since his appointment as general manager of Colorado Rockies in October of 2014, Jeff Bridich has been the person most responsible for the club now standing on the precipice of total disaster. It should have been a half-decade long window of contention. Instead, we have this. Bridich should get credit for having overseen…...
The Lost Boys of the Colorado Rockies, a group of no-longer-prospects-but-not-yet-stars, holds the keys to the team and how the fans feel about the team.
The Colorado Rockies have a money and roster crunch coming up that may just create the perfect unique situation to save them from themselves.
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 this episode of the DNVR Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons offer a few friendly reminders about analyzing exhibition play before jumping into the details of what the Colorado Rockies roster will look like on Opening Day.
There are a lot of way in which the 2020 MLB season is going to look a lot different than any we’ve ever witnessed before. Of course, the 60-game schedule stands out as the headliner among the changes as well it should. Perhaps next on the list, though, is the expansion of the rosters from 26, already up one from…...
On Sunday, Colorado announced the 52 members in their player pool for the 2020 season. Due to the delayed start of the season, coupled with a shortened 60-game schedule and all the complications that come along with it, each team will operate with a 60-man roster. While the Rockies did not utilize all 60 spots, it is much easier to…
On May 16, Major League Baseball presented the players’ union with a 67-page report outlining the new safety protocol for a potential 2020 season. The report, obtained by The Athletic, focused on four primary areas to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus: testing, travel, procedures at the baseball facility and Spring Training. While many of these recommendations – such as…
On this episode of the DNVR Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons ponder how current circumstances heavily impact the make-or-break nature of the next stretch of baseball games that Colorado will play. They could keep the core together for a long time, or lose almost all of it.
It’s the time of year in baseball when certain players will, at least for a moment, separate themselves from the pack and have fans, coaches, and teammates wondering “is this guy legit?” It can be difficult to discern the difference between someone who is blossoming into a breakout and a guy who just got hot for a few days. This…...
The Colorado Rockies come into Spring Training 2020 with quite a bit more buzz than usual. Most of that is related to an offseason rift between star third baseman Nolan Arenado and GM Jeff Bridich which itself is related to general frustration with a lack of movement from the front office and rumors that Arenado was shopped around. But there…
On Wednesday, the Colorado Rockies announced a series of moves to create room on the 40-man roster and free up some money on the 2020 payroll. Three players were placed on waivers and subsequently claimed: LHP Tyler Anderson (San Francisco Giants), LHP Sam Howard (Pittsburgh Pirates) and INF Pat Valaika (Baltimore Orioles). RHP Chad Bettis cleared outright waivers and elected…...
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