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The 2025 season was a nadir in Colorado Rockies franchise history, but it’s in the rearview mirror now. With new management in place, hope springs anew as the calendar turns to 2026 and it’s time to dream about the future. That means a new edition of the Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — Purple Row’s […]
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Everything related to the 2026 pre-season Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — our community’s ranking of the top 30 Colorado Rockies prospects. The full list will be revealed one-at-a-time beginning on January 12 in reverse order to provide more information for Rockies fans on those little pebbles down on the farm. Included in this stream will be […]
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The post-holiday doldrums are still in full swing as we enter the first full week of 2026. The Rockies did plenty prior to midnight last Thursday. The coaching staff and front office are all but full as we await formal announcements of both by the end of January. However, it’s been a few quiet weeks […]
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The weekend is a great time to kick back and reflect. This Week in Purple is the place to catch up on the news from our team at Purple Row. You’ll find links to Rockpiles and other content below as well as a platform for community discussion in the comments. 2026 is officially upon us, […]
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I wanted to share something I stumbled onto via Instagram. It’s a post that compares the evolution of MLB team logos over the last 20 years. The Colorado Rockies, you will note, remain unchanged, which should come as a surprise to no one. So tonight’s question is this: Should the Rockies make a significant logo […]
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Hello and welcome to 2026! Before we get on with a new year, we’d like to take one last look at 2025. Per annual tradition, we recap the year by examining our favorite articles (here’s our list from 2024). I’ve asked our writers to submit a few of their favorite articles they’ve written this year, […]
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Good riddance, 2025. Welcome, 2026, and the change and hope you offer. Even though the greatest sense of optimism hits in spring as the season gets closer, a new year is also a great time for a reset and reframe. With Purple Row’s Samantha Bradfield perfectly setting out the Rockies 2026 New Year Resolutions on […]
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Happy New Year! We wanted to try another new thing this season and solicit questions for a new feature, Purple Row’s Mailbag. Click here to submit your question to the Mailbag, and look for answers in the coming days. Also, I’ll leave the topics of discussion to the Purple Row night owls. What’s on your […]
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2025 was a trying year for both the Colorado Rockies and their fans. A 43-119 record is nothing to brush aside, and hopefully signifies rock bottom for a franchise that exists in the same city as the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets and Denver Broncos. However, 2026 is a clean slate. There have been a lot […]
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In asking this, I am stealing a question that The Athletic’s “The Pulse” newsletter posed to their staff and readers. The answers were compelling and touched on a wide range of topics. There was not a great deal of joy for the historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies and their fans. But I’m a big believer […]
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Happy (almost) new year! I hope your 2025 was better than the Colorado Rockies’ season… Entering a new year, it’s always fun to look back at everything that happened at Purple Row. Today, you can re-read our 10 most-read articles from 2025. Tomorrow, we’ll present our staff favorites. The articles below are posted counting down […]
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The 2026 season is rapidly approaching. Pitchers and catchers will soon report in about six weeks, and Paul DePodesta and company will have to start putting words into practice. The offseason has focused on building out the coaching staff and front office, leaving the big league roster fairly untouched. The only guaranteed big league addition […]
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Earlier this week, Cleveland Magazine dubbed Cleveland Guardians infielder Brayan Rocchio one of their “Most Interesting People, 2026.” As the author writes, Why He’s Interesting: In each of the past two postseasons, Brayan Rocchio — normally a light-hitting middle infielder — has come on strong, with key home runs against the Tigers in last year’s Wild […]
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A current favorite pastime of Colorado Rockies fans is trying to divine how president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta and general manager Josh Byrnes might approach building the 2026 team. We know from DePodesta’s comments last week to Kevin Henry that the focus for the coming season will have two components: building infrastructure and evaluating […]
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This morning, Baseball America ran an interesting “what if?” article, “Redrafting the 2021 MLB Draft: Jackson Merrill, James Wood top the class.” As Carlos Collazo writes, “That lack of consensus led to a 2021 redraft that deviates massively from how selections actually played out. Not a single player who went in the first 10 picks […]
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The Colorado Rockies have gone quiet as they have filled out most of their coaching staff and front office to begin the rebuild. There has been little news from 20th and Blake with the winter holidays making way for the end of 2025 and the start of 2026. There will no doubt be much more […]
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The weekend is a great time to kick back and reflect. This Week in Purple is the place to catch up on the news from our team at Purple Row. You’ll find links to Rockpiles and other content below as well as a platform for community discussion in the comments. We are officially in that […]
about 2 months ago | 0 reads
We’ve discussed what the Colorado Rockies should do at first base and second base. Tonight, let’s turn our attention to the hot corner: What should the Rockies do at third base? (You’ve made clear that you do not see bringing back Nolan Arenado as a viable option.) After the Rockies traded Ryan McMahon to the […]
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When it comes to the Colorado Rockies, there weren’t a lot of highlights in 2025. In fact, the biggest bright spots might be in the front office and coaching staff personnel changes. While there were some memorable moments on the field, I thought it might be more pleasant to focus on what happened off the […]
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On this holiday evening, I leave the evening’s agenda to all the Purple Row night owls. What’s on your mind? Please keep in mind our Purple Row Community Guidelines when you’re commenting. Thanks!
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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! It’s a time for family and celebration, or at least reflection for those of us who don’t have anywhere to go during the holiday season. Every family has its dysfunction, of course, and sometimes that dysfunction boils over. Such was the case for Nolan Arenado and the Colorado Rockies […]
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Earlier this week, Baseball America published the following graphic: So I pose the question to you: Heading into 2026, how hopeful are you about the Colorado Rockies? Please keep in mind our Purple Row Community Guidelines when you’re commenting. Thanks!
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It’s Christmas Eve, and the Colorado Rockies have been hard at work trying to better themselves for the 2026 season. The front office has been mixed up, and the big league coaching staff has taken shape. The players are all nestled in their beds and dreaming of home runs and slick plays with their stockings […]
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A year ago, I realized Festivus would fall on a Tuesday, which is my scheduled date for a Rockpile. And while watching the historically bad Colorado Rockies in 2025, one way I would console myself was thinking, Yes, but next year is Festivus is on a Tuesday, and I am not throwing away my shot. […]
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Look, I’m just going to say it: It’s a weird time to be a fan of the Colorado Rockies. Like me, you probably are well conditioned to the rhythms of a typical Rockies offseason: It starts with a few minor coaching changes and maybe some DFA’s and a non-tender or two. Then Dick Monfort sends […]
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