Author: By Kevin Henry Special to The Denver Gazette

With the Rockies opening their road series against the Texas Rangers on Monday and playing their 41st game of the season, there are now 40 games until the official halfway point of Major League Baseball’s 162-game schedule. It has been a tumultuous first 41 games for the Rockies. Hitting coach Hensley Meulens was dismissed April…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world was a much different place for Nolan Jones the last time he walked into the visitors’ clubhouse here at Nationals Park. It was August 20, 2024, and Jones had just been activated off the injured list by the Colorado Rockies. Shelved for the second time during the season by a…

As a 17-year-old high school baseball phenom, Mickey Moniak remembers talking with Bill Schmidt, then a scout with the Rockies, at his dinner table inside his California residence. A teenager with the possibility of an outstanding Major League Baseball career ahead of him, Moniak discussed with Schmidt during that conversation about what might happen if…

Despite the fact it’s only late April and five months of the Major League Baseball regular season still remain, the Colorado Rockies already find themselves in the cellar of the National League West and facing a double-digit deficit in the division’s games-behind column. For a team that internally expected to better itself this offseason, a…

Kris Bryant feels the pain of Rockies fans. As the Rockies wrapped up a homestand Sunday at Coors Field, Kris Bryant was open and emotional about once again being away from the Rockies and on the injured list. Going on the injured list retroactive to April 13 with lumbar degenerative disc disease, Bryant stood in…

While the Rockies stayed in-house when they replaced their hitting coach, replacement Clint Hurdle before Saturday’s home game against the Washington Nationals made it clear changes are coming for the Rockies on offense. “We are going to be aggressive at the plate,” said Hurdle, who served as Colorado’s manager across parts of eight seasons from…

When the Rockies called up catcher Braxton Fulford on Monday and included him on a big-league roster for the first time, it signaled the future of Rockies catching had arrived. Not that the 26-year-old Fulford himself is the lone answer behind the plate himself. However, Fulford joining 25-year-old Hunter Goodman as two of the three…

Nearly a year ago, Kris Bryant admitted the discs in his back were “pretty much dried up.” On Monday, the Rockies were once again left without Bryant’s services for the near future because of those issues. Before the Rockies took on the Los Angeles Dodgers Monday night, Colorado’s painful road trip through Southern California added…

Happy anniversary, Coors Field. Rockies fans later this month will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of Coors Field, a ballpark that not only has withstood the test of time, but aged gracefully into one of Major League Baseball’s architectural gems. The Rockies host the Oakland Athletics at 2:10 p.m. Friday for another Opening…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If the Colorado Rockies are going to avoid a third straight season of losing 100-plus games in 2025, improvement on the mound is a must. Colorado’s pitching last season from an earned run average (ERA) perspective was the worst in Major League Baseball, coming in at a combined 5.47. Before you shrug…