Aggressive baserunning helps Rockies secure 5th straight 'W'
SAN DIEGO -- The Rockies suddenly are doing something they hadn’t done much of in 2024. Besides winning. The Rockies have shown a newfound aggressiveness on the bases during their season-best five-game winning streak. That trend continued Monday night in their 5-4 victory over the Padres at Petco Park.
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Healthy Veen 'staying grateful and having fun'
This story was excerpted from Thomas Harding’s Rockies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DENVER -- Double-A Hartford outfielder Zac Veen’s path to his current lofty positions -- the leading hitter in the Eastern League and the No.
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Doyle's wall-crashing catch headlines Rox stellar defensive showing
DENVER -- The Rockies’ fourth straight victory, a 3-1 win over the defending World Series champion Rangers to complete a three-game sweep Sunday, left a mark. Just to the right of the “415-ft” wall in center at Coors Field, two of the pads were dented, split and borderline mangled. Call
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Who takes the hardest swings on each MLB team?
The Statcast era of baseball research has reached another milestone: bat speed is live on Baseball Savant. You can check out this page for more thorough details on what bat speed entails and how it’s calculated. But in the meantime, we’re kicking things off by breaking down the best of
Here's the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list
Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list. Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day
Another record for Bazzana: OSU's all-time hit mark
Travis Bazzana keeps rewriting the Oregon State record books. MLB Pipeline's No. 2 Draft prospect already claimed the program’s all-time and single-season home run records this season. Now he has set another major school mark. Bazzana became OSU’s all-time hits leader on Sunday, setting the school record with a run-scoring
No. 10 Rox prospect Montgomery has shoulder surgery
DENVER -- Double-A Hartford outfielder and Rockies No. 10 prospect Benny Montgomery, the team’s top pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, underwent surgery Friday to repair a left shoulder injury, Rockies director of player development Chris Forbes said. Montgomery, 21, sustained the injury while diving for a ball in the
Reliable Quantrill right at home with Rockies
This story was excerpted from Thomas Harding’s Rockies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DENVER -- By the fifth inning of their 9-1 victory over the Giants on Thursday afternoon, the game was headed in a comfortable direction
Dynamic catching duo of Díaz, Stallings leads Rox to series win
DENVER -- Elias Díaz made the first All-Star trip for a Rockies catcher -- an MVP performance, at that -- and set a club record with 126 games behind the dish in 2023. As much as he gave the club, the Rockies gave him something he needed: help from an
Blackmon's clutch double gives Rox consecutive wins
DENVER -- The Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon stood at second base and clapped his batting gloved hands together exactly once. The occasion of Blackmon’s eighth-inning two-run double that provided a 4-2 victory over the defending World Series champion Rangers at Coors Field called for more.
Tovar possesses unwavering belief in himself, Rockies
DENVER -- In a Rockies’ season that would reduce anyone’s power of positive thinking, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar has enough to lift himself and the rest of the club. Tovar singled, tripled and doubled -- the latter two extra-base hits occurring in the Rockies’ seven-run fourth inning -- and helped pull
Draft prospect Condon hits 34th HR, most in D1 since 2011
The top prospect in the 2024 Draft has solidified his status as the premier power in college baseball's bat-ball coefficient of restitution era. Georgia slugger Charlie Condon launched his 34th home run of the season in Thursday's 14-10 win over South Carolina, which marked the highest single-season total since the
Bryant working through injury by controlling what he can
DENVER -- In college at the University of San Diego more than a decade ago, Kris Bryant sought out enough slights to jot on about 20 index cards. "This guy's a 5 o'clock hitter … he can't do this or that," he recalled. Believing it was not the way to
Potential future closers -- one for each team
Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of
3 takeaways from the Rockies' shutout loss to the Giants
DENVER -- Rockies pitcher Dakota Hudson couldn’t find the strike zone and the offense couldn’t produce runs. The combination of those two ills led to a 5-0 loss to the Giants at Coors Field on Tuesday night. The worst start in Rockies history reached 8-27. Here are takeaways from the
Here are the weirdest stats and plays from the past month in the Minors
After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe
New tandem atop lineup looking to emerge
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'We're not performing': A closer look at Rockies' early struggles
PITTSBURGH -- On Friday afternoon, hours before a victory over the Pirates sparked hopes -- which were dashed the next two days -- Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt gave reasons his struggling club hasn’t met its expectations, or even the low public forecasts. “We’re not performing -- we’re not hitting,
No. 2 Draft prospect Bazzana homers 5 times in 2 games
Travis Bazzana's power bat seemingly never takes a break -- even in the rare Monday college baseball game. Just one day after going deep three times and setting Oregon State's single-season home run record, the No. 2 Draft prospect knocked another two homers in the Beavers’ 20-12 win over Gonzaga.