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Colorado Rockies game no. 1 thread: Kyle Freeland vs. Sandy Alcantara 

It has been a busy six months since the 2025 season ended at Coors Field with a loss to the Giants, capping off the most torturous season in franchise history.  The Rockies finished 2025 on a six-game losing streak enroute to 119 total losses on the season — a number that still doesn’t quite feel real.  A […]

Young Rockies reflect on making their 1st Opening Day rosters

Finally, Opening Day is here and the climb begins for the Colorado Rockies.  For fans, it’s a chance to see the change in action from an offseason marked with front office and coaching changes. For the players, it’s a chance to prove they can compete. For four young players, it’s a chance to prove they […]

Rockies Reacts Results: The Rox passed the spring test

Tomorrow is Opening Day for the Rockies, which means we can officially close the door on spring training 2026. However, it’s still worth reflecting on in hopes of predicting what they might do in the regular season. On Tuesday, we asked you to grade the Rockies’ spring training. More than half of you gave them […]

MLB Opening Day 2026 thread

After yesterday’s Opening Night on Netflix, MLB Opening Day officially kicks off for 22 other teams today. The San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees will resume their series tomorrow. The day kicks off with a marquee matchup of Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates facing off against Juan Soto and the New York Mets. […]

How to measure success for the 2026 Rockies?

In their team by team season preview series each year Effectively Wild asks “what would constitute a success for <insert team> this year?” While winning the World Series would be seen as a success for any team, most are not in a position where that would be plausible. For those teams, some other benchmark, if […]

MLB Opening Night game thread: Max Fried vs. Logan Webb

Welcome to the 2026 season of Major League Baseball! The Colorado Rockies won’t play until Friday, as MLB is doing a bit of a staggered start to the season. Roughly half of the league will start playing on Thursday, with the other handful picking up the action on Friday. However, there is just a single […]

MLB Opening Day 2026: The Purple Row community offers their season predictions

It’s Opening Day! Baseball is back! Earlier today, we shared our Purple Row staff predictions, and for the third-straight year, we asked the community to offer their same predictions! We received 18 responses, down from 35 in 2025, and here’s what you all think will happen this year: Let’s start with a win total The community […]

Rockies announce 2026 Opening Day Roster

With spring training having finally drawn to a close and the first official day of the 2026 Major League Baseball season arriving, the Colorado Rockies have formally announced their Opening Day 26-man roster. Names in bold denote those players making an Opening Day roster for the first time. Starting Rotation Entering his tenth MLB season, […]

Predicting Rockies superlatives in 2026

Spring training has finally concluded, the Colorado Rockies roster is set, and the 2026 season officially begins for the club on Friday. With the conclusion of a successful Camp Schaeffer, it seems appropriate to hand out some superlative predictions for the new-look Rockies as we head into the regular season with hopes high and the […]

Rockies Reacts Survey: Grade Rockies spring training

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rockies fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. We did it, everyone! Spring training is complete and the Rockies are on their way to […]

Rockies reliever Seth Halvorsen to start the season in Triple-A

Much of the Colorado Rockies 2026 roster came into focus over the weekend in terms of position players and the starting rotation. This morning, they began crafting the bullpen into its final form. Kevin Henry reported that reliever Seth Halvorsen will start the season in Triple-A Albuquerque. According to Henry, manager Warren Schaeffer added this: […]

Warren Schaeffer reflects on his first spring training as the Rockies manager

Warren Schaeffer had a whirlwind 2025 season. He began as the Rockies’ third base coach but after 40 games, manager Bud Black was fired and Schaeffer was given the reins. With 122 games remaining in the season, he not only had to prove himself as someone who was capable of being a big league manager, […]

Ezequiel Tovar led a successful Rockies delegation in the World Baseball Classic

After several weeks of intense and exciting international competition, the 2026 World Baseball Classic has sadly drawn to a close. The sadness stems from the fact that the next tournament will not come until either 2029 or 2030—and may come with changes to the scheduling and format. However, for victorious Venezuela there is no sadness […]

The 2026 Colorado Rockies: A SWOT analysis

Here we are on the eve of the 2026 MLB season, and we’ll have Colorado Rockies baseball this weekend. Finally, we will get to see the Paul DePodesta–Josh Byrnes rebuild strategy in action. That also means it’s time for my yearly SWOT analysis. (Read 2024’s here and 2025’s here.) As a refresher, my preference is to write a […]

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Postgame comments following a 6-5 Rockies win over the Athletics

Today the Colorado Rockies wrapped up their spring training games by defeating The Athletics 6-5. See game highlights here. First, here are manager Warren Schaeffer’s postgame thoughts: Starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen discussed his day: And, finally, Edouard Julien discussed being named to the Rockies Opening Day roster: The Rockies finish spring training games with a […]

Rockies set position players and starting rotation

On Sunday morning, the Colorado Rockies announced the following position players will break camp with the team: Additionally, the rotation is set as such: The most interesting note was that RHP Chase Dollander will begin the season with the Rockies, but he will start off in the bullpen. On Feltner, Schaeffer had this to say:  […]

Rockies RHP RJ Petit has Tommy John surgery

Thomas Harding announced this morning that Rockies right-hander RJ Petit (No. 23 PuRP) has undergone Tommy John surgery after suffering the initial injury on March 4 against Team USA. Petit was selected by the Rockies in the first round of the Rule 5 Draft back in December from the Detroit Tigers. The 6’8” righty was […]

Colorado Rockies Spring Breakout game thread: Brody Brecht vs. Patrick Forbes

As spring training winds down, the third annual MLB Spring Breakout is kicking off, featuring 16 matchups between rosters loaded with baseball’s up-and-coming stars. The Colorado Rockies’ prospects get their turn in a Saturday evening matchup with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rockies announced their 2026 roster earlier in the week. Among the group are familiar […]

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