Tag: Rockies
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million…
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Rockies notebook: Matt Adams returns to St. Louis; Rodgers and Freeland take next steps
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Returning to St. Louis is like returning home for Rockies first baseman Matt Adams. Adams played for the Cardinals from 2012 to 2016, in addition to parts of the 2017 and 2018 seasons. It was the organization that drafted him in 2009, and developed him into the player he is today. On May 7, before…
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Woody Paige: Rockies set to play Cardinals, Arenado; so we meet again
The Inaugural Rockies-Nolan Arenado Reunion Series begins Friday night. Most everybody except the two men responsible for the event will be at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. One is in hiding; the other is in exile. Perhaps they’ll get together and have a pity party. Arenado is doing fine, thank you. He’s playing third base…
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Alan Trejo positioning himself to be the next in line of great Colorado Rockies shortstops
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DENVER — When Alan Trejo was in high school, he worked as a giveaway boy in the right field concourse at Dodger Stadium. He dreamed of the day he would take the field as a major league player. On April 13, Trejo walked by the spot he was stationed at less than a decade ago.…
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Colorado Rockies pitcher Justin Lawrence forms unbreakable bond during suspension
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Justin Lawrence’s best friend wasn’t able to see his MLB debut for the Rockies on Thursday night. It was on past his bedtime. Beckham Brown, 8, watched the highlights Friday morning though. The two became inseparable last year, when Lawrence was suspended and coached Beckham Brown’s youth baseball team. “He was obviously ecstatic,” Jared Brown…
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Colorado Rockies’ Garrett Hampson uses leadoff spot as chance to show off signature speed
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DENVER — Before Garrett Hampson’s first game hitting in the leadoff spot this season April 7, his mother sent him a text telling him to be aggressive. He took it to heart. That night, he stole three bases, a career high. “She’s always texting me good luck,” Hampson said about his mother, who watches most…
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Colorado Rockies 2021: Get to know the projected opening day roster
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The Rockies open the 2021 season Thursday at Coors Field, where they will play in front of fans for the first time since 2019. Get to know the projected opening day roster. Catcher Elías Díaz: He will take the place of Tony Wolters, who was nontendered by the Rockies in December. In his first season…