It’s day two of our Winter Meetings coverage and we can confirm: the stove is still hot. The Padres outbid everyone for Trea Turner and still couldn’t sign him; Aaron Judge is mad at the Yankees; Bud Black might’ve had a feeling the Los Angeles Angels would snag Carlos Estevez. Where do we go from here? Suzie Hunter brings you…
Brandon Nimmo is the name most often linked with the Rockies and there are a lot of national sources who seem to think it can happen. Who else is interested in Nimmo? Why will he be a lot more expensive than expected? The markets for Aaron Judge, Justin Verlander and Jacob deGrom heat up as we wait for the first…
The Colorado Rockies drop another to the San Francisco Giants – but at least C.J. Cron has 101 RBI! Suzie talks with Giants beat writer Susan Slusser about the state of women in sports, the future of the Oakland A’s, and why the 107 win season in 2021 ended up hurting San Francisco this year. We also get an update on…
Colorado needs to flush the disappointing homestand as seven games in six days against the Giants and Padres are ahead this week. Brendan Rodgers makes us examine the history books while Rockies’ affiliates teach us importance of winning in the minors. Plus, the one problem with the City Connect uniforms that isn’t actually a problem and Matt Holliday’s pride of…
When the Marshall Fire damaged and destroyed thousands of homes in Boulder County this past December, two Colorado natives from the National League West took notice. “We have four generations of firefighters in our family before us, and they’re all Denver firemen,” Tyler Rogers of the San Francisco Giants shared. “So that’s kind of where (our charity) started.” Twin brothers…
Since the year 2000, nearly three times as many MLB players have come from the Los Angeles metro area than any other city in the world. But for the Colorado Rockies, San Francisco is the town where most of the American-born players identify with the most. Robert Stephenson, Dom Nuñez and Garrett Hampson all considered the San Francisco Giants their…...
Beat reporters Patrick Lyons of DNVR Rockies and Jesse Friedman of PHNX Diamondbacks meet on the corner of their respective states to weigh in on the behemoths that rest in the NL West. Happy New Year! It’s Opening Day and the start of the 2022 MLB Season. Now that baseball has returned to some sense of normalcy – sure, delayed…...
Germán Márquez makes his second start of Spring Training and looks solid over 60 pitches. But is he in line to become the Opening Day starter? Who else could Bud Black choose? And what’s the status of the bullpen? Who could be ticketed for Albuquerque to open the season? The offseason was a whirlwind and now that most players have…
The addition of a superstar to the roster of any professional sports franchise is a thing of pure jubilation. At least that’s been the prevailing thought in almost every instance. There’s always an exception to the rule. In that last 13 months, three notable figures on the roster of the Colorado Rockies have departed the only organization they ever knew.…
K.P. Wee, author and host of The K.P. Wee Podcast, discusses his late book, “The Case For Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame: The Untold and Forgotten Stories of Baseball’s Home Run King.” He details the double standards and unfair criticism Bonds has faced in his career, not to mention several interesting anecdotes about his treatment of teammates that…
Producer Extraordinaire Yahir joins the pod to break down the greatest memes of the World Series and 2021 postseason, many of which come at the expense of the Los Angeles Dodgers. We touch on the retirement of Buster Posey, the Tigers acquisition of Tucker Barnhart from the Reds and what the Colorado Rockies should do about Trevor Story and Jon…
Entering the final homestand of the 2021 season, the Colorado Rockies had an opportunity to impact the postseason with six games against the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. With the Dodgers and Giants locked in a heated battle for the top spot in the National League West, the Rockies were poised to shift the balance with three-game sweeps,…...
Having already won seven consecutive games against the Rockies and up 7-2 in the ninth with one of the best bullpens in the National League, the Dodgers were poised to pull within one game of the first-place San Francisco Giants. Max Muncy wasn’t about to pass up an opportunity to put the final nail in Colorado’s coffin, one that would…...
With no shortage of scintillating stories and popular personalities, it was a fiesta of all things fantastic. Minus numerous conversations at performing at altitude, the beauty of Coors Field as well as the hangover effect, the following is a smattering of other exchanges. Kevin Gausman, San Francisco Giants The Grandview HS graduate is one of three All-Star Game representatives to…...
The aptly nicknamed Hot Stove League kicked off in San Diego at the Winter Meetings with Scott Boras inking consecutive record-breaking contracts for his aces Stephen Strasburg and Gerrit Cole. Since then, more trades and other signings have changed a few names on the backs of every team’s uniforms, but it’s the extended offseason that may make it hard to…
On Monday, Major League Baseball released the abbreviated 60-game schedule for all 30 teams. Without exception, the Colorado Rockies have a challenging road ahead if they are going to win their first National League West pennant or, even more ambitious, their first World Series. A typical 162-game season will contain several matchups or consecutive series that could prove challenging to…
The San Francisco Giants came into Friday night’s contest against the Colorado Rockies dragging through a streak of 11 straight losses. The visitors meanwhile were riding high after a 3-1 series win over the Arizona Diamondbacks that created some breathing room in the race for the division title. But it turned out to be a night that belonged to Giants’…...
In a massive sweep of the San Francisco Giants, the Colorado Rockies took the lead for the NL West, as we do after each series we graded every performance by the Rockies.
DENVER – Here’s a taste of today’s pre-game banter with manager Bud Black before the Rockies look to finish of a three-game sweep of the Giants: On the aggressiveness of base runners coming from the players or coaching staff: “Kind of a combination. We’ve been in the type of games now that enable us to do that, whether close or…...
After wrapping an extra-inning win early Friday morning for their fans back home, the Colorado Rockies went back to work at AT&T Park in the evening looking to secure at least a series split against the San Francisco Giants. With a fatigued bullpen, the Rockies got the long outing they needed from a red-hot Kyle Freeland while Ian Desmond got…...
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