If you thought Coors Field is friendly to the hitters who step foot inside, just wait until you experience it as a baseball fan. Few ballparks do a better job of capturing the natural environment encompassing it. There’s a touch of creativity with the mountain-themed scoreboard, a solid l...
we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on each player's career with that franchise. We've tackledcatchers,first basemen,second basemen,third basemen,shortstops,left fielders,center fielders,right fielders,designat...
slashing .329/.397/.602 with 37 homers and driving in 103 runs out of the leadoff spot -- second to only Betts in 2023 for the most RBIs as a leadoff man in AL/NL history. He certainly benefited from playing his home games at Coors Field, batting .391 with a 1.239 OPS there, b...
De La Rosa has been one of the most successful pitchers at Coors Field over the years, going 86-61 with a 4.35 ERA in nine years with the Rockies. Now at age 35, he needs to get out of the hitters' park and go to a more pitching-friendly atmosphere, or this might be his last ...
So hey, this one’s a boring pick (there are a few more of these below) but when you’re coming off a career year at age 28 at a premium defensive position on a team that’s shown a very driven urge to keep young, homegrown stars locked up, well, it seems like a no-brainer....
Career 162 Game Avg Stats: .278 Avg, .880 OPS, 31 HR, 89 RBI, 102 R, 8 SB While last year was a bit of a disappointment for Bryant, the elevation of Coors Field should do its normal wonders to increase power production. He may not be the same versatile player he once was, but...
So relentless was that performance that it’s difficult to single out a specific game. We’ll do it anyway. At Coors Field on Aug. 21, Céspedes doubled and scored in the first inning, hit a grand slam in the second, led off the fourth with another homer, then added a two-run sho...
Walker played 10 of his 17 seasons with the Rockies. Helton spent an entire 17-year career with the club. Getting into the Hall under any circumstance is difficult. But Walker and Helton had to overcome the voters’ difficulty with statistics, which can be outsized at Coors Field and dicey...
ERA+ is ballpark adjusted, but spend any time at Coors Field or following the Rockies in and out of a unique mile-high atmosphere, and it’s difficult to believe that park-adjusted stats capture the whole picture. Back in ’99, the Rockies were three years from discovering that normalizing...
While starring with the Expos, Walker became so intrigued with the massive crowds at Mile High Stadium during the Rockies’ first two seasons that he pushed his representatives to seek a deal with the Rockies going into ’95 -- the team’s first season at Coors Field. Walker’s impact was...