Colorado Rockies

By tom-stephenson It's been a slow offseason so far.  Apologies for the slowness in getting the 2009 review done. One of the main items of interest so far from the Rockies' perspective is that the team declined Yorvit Torrealba's 2010 option.  The Rockies may still bring Torrealba back, but the team evidently...

By tom-stephenson Continuing along with our review of the Rockies players in 2009, we get to the left side of the infield today. Troy Tulowitzki: Tulo had an MVP-caliber season in 2009, though he obviously won't be so honored with the season that Albert Pujols had.  Actually, from June on, he may well have been...

By tom-stephenson While we’re still waiting for the sting of the NLDS loss to go away, we’re going to take a look back at the 2009 season, starting with the annual list of the top 10 Rockies games of the year. 10.  April 6: Diamondbacks 9, Rockies 8. What was supposed to be a pitchers’ duel between Aaron [...]

By theoldgrizzlybear 2 days ago: Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Huston Street, left, talks with Yorvit Torrealba, right, as other members of the team celebrate their 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in their Major League Baseball game, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

By tom-stephenson The offseason now begins with a bitter taste in the mouths of Rockies fans.  Unlike 2007, when many Rockies fans were understandably skeptical about the staying power of the team given the previous 11-year playoff drought, fans can look forward to at least a couple more years of good baseb...

By Silverblood Holy lawd awwwwwmighty. THANK YOU CLINT BARMES. Browse more photos » It is no longer time to look back. We will only be looking forward. Kindly join me after the jump as we sound the horn of Helton Hammerhand in the deep ONE. LAST. TIME. GO ROCKIES!!!!!!!! GO MARLINS!!!!!!!!!

By Silverblood The big test will come after the Padres depart, in the form of a three-game set with the NL Central champions (hopefully by the time they get there) St. Louis Cardinals. The Rockies will get to cut their teeth against a legit championship contender, including the chance to face both of the Car...

You don't see 10s on the board that often," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. Since 1900, the Pirates have enjoyed a bigger inning only twice — scoring 11 in one inning in 1992 and '42. "It seemed like it was just a matter of time before we broke out ... Colorado Rockies News

Colorado Rockies News Helton walked. Hawpe singled to right, Helton to third. Spilborghs doubled to right, Helton scored, Hawpe scored. Stewart fouled out to catcher Jaramillo. Rockies second. Iannetta struck out. Barmes homered to left on a 0-1 count. ...

ROCKIES 3, MARLINS 2: Aaron Cook pitched six solid innings, and Troy Tulowitzki homered to lead host Colorado. Cook (2-1) allowed two runs – one earned – and four hits, helping the Rockies snap a three-game skid. ASTROS 12, PADRES 5: Miguel Tejada and ...

The lack of offense has helped place the Rockies in an undesirable spot, no one worse than manager Clint Hurdle, who realizes he needs wins to keep his job. Changes are looming without improvement. Ian Stewart might get sent down to Triple-A to fix his ...

By Rox Girl Shortstop: Carlos Martinez still hasn't emerged as the player he was cracked out to be, but last season did see him make gains in his performance across the board from the futility he showed in his first year at Casper. Another solid step forward in 2009 should have him back on our prospect ra...

Todd Helton continues to torch the baseball this spring. This past week he had a .818 on base percentage – he got on base nine times in 11 plate appearances. Not only is he getting on base but he is also driving the ball, he had two doubles and a home ...

By RockiesMagicNumber Tim Redding #44 / Pitcher / New York Mets Height: 5-11 Dan O'Dowd gets the strangest fixations on the crappiest pitchers. I'm not going to take the time to go through the past 5 years and point them out, but Tim Redding was the most recent O'Dowd ManCrush.

By Silverblood The important bit (i.e. I put it in bold so you read it): I'd like to ask the community at large if they find Rockies Review, as currently constituted, a helpful feature. After all, should it be assumed  that we Rowbots are all deranged dedicated enough to either follow every game live, or to cat...

By Silverblood What's on Tap? JHOULYS CHACIN will start against the D-backs tomorrow, as Aaron Cook will get in his work in a B-game so the Snakes don't start getting familiar with him (yeah, like that's going to make much difference... they've faced him how many times, now?) But Rockies fans will appreciat...

By Rox Girl FINALLY... You're never too young to start blogging about the Rockies, as Emily, with some help from her dad, Dan, shows in new Rockies blog Dinger's Best Friend. I want her room, although I noticed we have some of the same stuff already. I love my Todd Helton Babooshka.

By Rox Girl On Base with the Asheville Tourists - Ditto Jason McGill of the Asheville Citizen Times Alright, that's the Rowbot assignment for this week, find me a Rockies blogger with a cowboy hat, because that part of replacing Ringolsby should at least be doable, I would think. Good luck, and go Roc...

By Silverblood What have we learned this week? There's been a lot. We've learned that Tulo's sporting mangy roadkill on his face, that Dan O'Dowd thinks that "wins" are another one of those weird sabermetrician stats like "VORP" that don't have much to do with judging the progress of a baseball team, that...

By Rox Girl Jeff Francis' decision to have shoulder surgery seems to be having a greater impact outside the Rockies blogosphere than it is within it, as it seems most well informed Rockies fans saw this as somewhat inevitable. There hasn't been the same sort of pronouncement of doom here among Rockie...

By Silverblood Jeff Francis, 28 (January 8) Ubaldo Jimenez, 25 (January 22) Alan Embree, 39 (January 23) Shane Lindsay, 24 (January 25) Aaron Cook, 30 (February 8) Moral of the story: If you would like to be a pitcher for the Rockies, please check to ensure that you were born in January).

By RockiesMagicNumber The top 5 longest playing catchers in Rockies history are: 5. Charles Johnson Shout out to Charles Johnson, he put up some good numbers after the Hampton trade, but trading him to Boston for BH Kim was a decent move. 2003-2004 Charles Johnson

By Russ Colorado Rockies: 2005 - Daniel Carte, OF, Winthrop - Hey, the Rockies had two second-round picks. Thank you Washington for hastily signing Vinny Castilla once free agency started and allowing the Rockies the easy decision of offering arbitration. Carte's advanced a level each year, bu...

Neverett was a pregame and postgame studio host for Colorado Rockies games on FSN Rocky Mountain. He also called some Rockies games on a part-time basis. ... Neverett joins Pirates broadcast team Rocky Mountain News Pittsburgh Pirates News - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Neverett joins the Pirates from FSN Rocky Mountain where he worked as a pre- and post-game studio host and part-time play-by-play announcer for Rockies ... Neverett takes over Pirates announcer's job USA Today Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Rocky Mountain News

By Russ 2003 - Michael Aubrey, Indians, 1B, Tulane - Aubrey made his major league debut in 2008 (15 games over two stints). His lack of power for a first baseman (48 in six seasons, 15 his season best) has held him back, but if given playing time he'd likely be an average first baseman.

By Rox Girl So the direction my NL West preview posts have been taking me leads me to believe that a good part of the Rockies fate in 2009 lies largely in four left arms, namely those of starters Jeff Francis, Jorge De La Rosa, Greg Smith and Franklin Morales and how well they are able to fill three slots in...

Atlanta Braves' Chipper Jones connects for a double in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Thursday, Sept. ... Rockies season in review: Reneging on promise Rocky Mountain News Rockies vs. Diamondbacks - Recap - September 28, 2008 ESPN

 CO - Steven Register returned from being picked in the Rule 5 draft by the Mets to dominate out of the bullpen and make his brief, one out MLB debut on August ...

By Tom Stephenson No Rockies games for three days. Well, we can support Aaron Cook and Matt Holliday in the All-Star Game, but other than that, the Rockies have three days off. And it’s probably a good thing after a first half in which almost everything that could go wrong went wrong. The team started [...]

 PA - By Rob Biertempfel DENVER -- Scott Baker and Matt Holliday homered on consecutive pitches in the fifth inning Sunday, as the Colorado Rockies pounded the ... Rockies overpower Pirates, 5-3 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review all 8 news articles

The Dodgers, who were shut out Tuesday night, were held scoreless by Rockies starter Aaron Cook until the sixth inning, when slumping shortstop Chin-lung Hu ... Torrealba-Kemp fight under review Denver Post High & Inside: NL Notes Philadelphia Inquirer

By Jim McLennan I think we all know who Player A is, so let's move on, shall we? Player B, however, might surprise you: Luis Gonzalez, in a less-than-full time role for the surprising (and NL East leading) Florida Marlins. Over on Major-League Jerk, Hef speculates on how Gonzo's career might have played ou...

Rockies 13 Diamondbacks 5 At Phoenix, Clint Barmes, Matt Holliday and Garrett Atkins homered, and Colorado Rockies snapped the Diamondbacks' eight-game win ... NL Wire Notes | Maddux works his magic in Padres' victory Seattle Times

By Jim McLennan One good thing: attendance continues to impress. Obviously, the tenth-anniversary celebrations and some cool giveaways likely helped lure more people to the ballpark. But compared to the equivalent second home series in 2007 [which was also over the weekend against the Rockies], crow...

By Jim McLennan Last night's game was...what it was. Davis got hammered, but his mere presence on the mound was an achievement in itself; the middle-relief was excellent (4.1 innings of one-hit ball); our C-list pitchers got roughed up by the Rockies' C-list hitters. They used 28 players, we used 27. The offici...

By Jim McLennan Arizona scored three times in the sixth, including a solo homer by Chris Burke [another two hits today, to bring him up to .400 on the season], but Fruto couldn't hold the 7-6 lead and the Rockies plated two on three hits to retake the lead once more. Things loooked bleak for the Diamondbacks as...

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By Tom Stephenson There just really isn’t a lot going on with the Rockies. There really hasn’t been much going on at all since the end of the World Series. Well, we signed Mark Redman and Kip Wells. Hopefully, they’re just insurance and aren’t going to be taking rotation spots away from guys like Franklin [...]

Colorado Rockies News Lackluster World Series On paper, the Red Sox were the favorite team to win it all, but much of America was still confident in riding on the bandwagon of the Rockies' impressive ... Rockies season in review Colorado Rockies News

The Rockies had their best regular season in franchise history and made it to the World Series for the first time in 15 years of existence. via Major League Baseball

Rockies season in review  - Nov 2, 2007 By CJ Moore / MLB.com DENVER -- The Rockies had their best regular season in franchise history and made it to the World Series for the first time in 15 ... Boston Red Sox fans riot after World Series News Record

By Greg Yet I envy the Rockies. They've made it this far. They'll probably be dismissed as hopeless lightweights when (when, not if) they lose this World Series, but I hope their fans have enjoyed the unanticipated ride. No, they're likely not enjoying much right now, as evidenced by Fox's continua...

By Jeff Kallman Neither he nor the Rockies would have reason or desire to backtrack from that. If you’re the Colorado Rockies, you couldn’t do it with any better exclamation point than bagging your single most public underminer for the Monday night out that means game, set, 21 wins in your previous 22 game...

By Jim McLennan That said, here's a somewhat staggering fact for you. Twenty-one pitchers have thrown more than a dozen innings against Colorado this year, including Brad Penny, Jake Peavy, Chris Young, Derek Lowe and Barry Zito: guess who's got the lowest ERA of the lot? Livan Hernandez: a solid 35 inni...

By Jim McLennan Other factors come to play, of course, not least the offensiveness of our offense. You will probably not do well in the playoffs, when you can score only three runs in 20 innings - though again, we hit for more bases than the Rockies. Both pitching staff have been phenomenal, but we actually ha...

By Jim McLennan Ouch. That was not the National League Championship Series I signed up for. I signed up for the one in which the two best teams in the league collided, an ultimate test of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. Whenever that series starts, please let me know - because it clearly w...

By Jessica Bader As I type this, I’m watching the Padres and Rockies battle it out for the wild card, still trying to process the fact that the winner of this matchup will not be facing the Mets, that nobody will be facing the Mets until spring training. It just wasn’t supposed to end this way, and I’m not saying...

Rockies send Beckett to 1st loss of 2007 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - I know I'ma good hitter," the Rockies third baseman said Thursday night after going 3-for-5 to help Colorado beat the Boston Red Sox 7-1. ...