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The Rockies offseason shopping list

We don’t know for sure how much payroll space the Rockies will have available this offseason. We don’t know for sure how high ownership is willing to allow the budget to go, and and we don’t know how much their handful of arbitration-eligible players will end up making. We can, however, use historic precedent and […]

Michael Lorenzen kept searching, but never found the answer

Welcome to the 2026 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2026. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]

The optimistic improvement of the 2026 Colorado Rockies

During the 2024 and 2025 seasons, it seemed like the Colorado Rockies were finding ways to make the record books in the worst ways imaginable every day. It was so frequent that I took it upon myself to try to chronicle those records and statistics, compiling them into articles to cap off the 2024 and […]

Scaling the Rocks: Cole Carrigg and TJ Rumfield provide hope for the Rockies

Greetings, friends! The postseason is officially underway after the first day of Wild Card action. The games were electric, but it’s also interesting to see how teams constructed their rosters. Injured pitchers who hadn’t started for a while made rosters, while Aaron Judge was left off the roster for the New York Yankees. It’ll be […]

Tyler Freeman made contact, but not enough impact

Welcome to the 2026 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2026. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]

MLB Wildcard 2026 Discussion Thread: Day 1

The Colorado Rockies did not make the playoffs (again), but it’s going to be a great day to talk about playoff baseball. Here’s today’s bracket: We’ll add lineups as they become available. Okay, let’s enjoy some October baseball. Philadelphia Phillies @ Atlanta Braves — 12:00 pm MDT Record when teams met in 2026: Braves 9, Phillies 4 […]

Cole Carrigg selected as NL Rookie of the Month for September

Major League Baseball announced today that Colorado Rockies IF/OF Cole Carrigg has been selected as the National League’s Rookie of the Month for September. He joins TJ Rumfield, who won back-to-back awards in May and June. Carrigg burst onto the scene in June — quite literally, with a triple in his very first at-bat. He’s […]

Scaling the Rocks: Rockies PBO Paul DePodesta plans for the offseason

Good morning, Purple Row! While much of MLB looks to the postseason with games starting today, the Colorado Rockies are turning to their rebuild, a point Paul DePodesta stressed in a recent conversation (linked below) with MLB.com’s Thomas Harding. “After living through this for a year, we have a very good direction on what it […]

This overlooked player will make or break Red Sox’s chances vs. Yankees in AL Wild Card round

The Boston Red Sox were in a battle with the Los Angeles Angels for the worst record in the American League as the 2026 season approached the halfway point. The Red Sox had just lost two of three games to the Colorado Rockies and they were on their way to getting buried as they prepared […] The post This overlooked player will make or break Red Sox’s chances vs. Yankees in AL Wild Card round appeared first on ClutchPoints .

Purple Row After Dark: It’s Purple Row’s October Madness!

Clearly, the season is over for the Colorado Rockies as the front office turns its full attention to their rebuild work with a full year of player data to inform their thinking. But the eyes of the baseball world will be focused on the MLB playoffs, which begin tomorrow. (Look for our discussion thread to […]

It’s time to end the Kris Bryant chapter of Rockies baseball

Welcome to the 2026 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2026. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]

Colorado Rockies 2026 Season Review: Ranking the Rockies

Welcome to the 2026 edition of Ranking the Rockies, as we look back at the performance of all players that put on a Colorado uniform in 2026. Instead of being subjectively determined, each ‘rank’ is objectively set by Baseball Reference’s Wins Above Replacement (rWAR). Players will be revealed in reverse order.

National outlets make their predictions for Braves vs. Phillies

In a three-game series between any two teams in Major League Baseball, pretty much anything can happen. The Rockies can get the best of the Dodgers on the right weekend. Now pit two of MLB’s best against each other that also happen to be heated rivals, and things could really go either way. The Phillies […]

Zach Goodman reflects on his first season behind the mic for the Rockies

At the end of last season, Rockies broadcaster Jerry Schemmel was let go for the second time in five years. It was unclear who would join longtime radio voice Jack Corrigan in the booth, but the Rockies held auditions during spring training, and the job was eventually won by Zach Goodman – broadcaster for the […]

Scaling the Rocks: The 2026 Rockies season is over

We did it, folks. We made it through another 162 games of Rockies baseball. While they limped to the end and ultimately finished 58-104, there were plenty of glimmers of hope for the future (as well as many reminders of why they finished with a fourth-consecutive 100-loss season). Over the next few weeks, we’ll be […]

White Sox wrap 84-win season with 4-2 home win over Rockies

That’s a wrap, folks! 84 wins, 78 losses. By the end of 2025, it was at least theoretically possible to squint and see the bones of an 80-ish win team in 2026. but having actually gotten there, I almost don’t know what to say. This game was superfluous, but for some reason, 84 is a […]

Rockies falter in their season finale with 4-2 loss to the White Sox

The sun has set on the 2026 Colorado Rockies season. Perhaps fittingly, it came with a 4-2 loss against the playoff-bound Chicago White Sox—a team that found themselves in a similar situation to the Rockies just two years ago. With today’s loss, the Rockies finish their season at 58-104. It is their second-worst season in […]

White Sox 4, Rockies 2: A fine end to a fine regular season

Freed from any pressure of postseason implications for a day, the White Sox seized the stress-free day to bring a most surprising of regular seasons to a straightforward, crowd-pleasing finish. Randal Grichuk and Brenton Doyle hit two-run homers against their former team as Anthony Kay completed five innings for the first time in seven starts as the White Sox put a bow on the 162-game schedule with an 84-78 record. Now they'll head to Houston to face the Astros in the Wild Card Series, as ...