Archives for the ‘colorado rockies’ Category

Non Roster Invitee - Randy Flores - Rockies

By john • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: colorado rockies, major leagues, non roster invitee, randy flores

Randy Flores is the older brother to Ron Flores and in this case is our pick for non roster invitee for the Colorado Rockies. Born in Bellflower California, Flores has made a career out of being a solid left handed choice out of big league bullpens.
Drafted by the New York Yankees he began his pro [...]



Murton’s change of scenery may not net AB’s

By john • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: colorado rockies, matt murton, minor leagues

The Colorado Rockies have acquired outfielder Matt Muton from the Oakland A’s for minor league speedster Corey Wimberly. Murton spent most of last season in the minor leagues with the Iowa Cubs and Sacramento River Cats.
Murton appeared in 32 games for the River Cats following a trade and hit .277/.345/.423 but appeared in just 9 [...]



Iannetta accepts invite to play in WBC

By john • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: chris iannetta, colorado rockies, major leagues, world baseball classic

Colorado Rockies catcher Chris Iannetta has accepted in invitation to play for Team USA in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
Last spring Iannetta had to put together a strong spring just to make the Rockies and the 25-year-old finished the year with a .264 average, 18 home runs and 65 RBIs. His OPS was .895 and [...]



Can’t count out Colorado

By john • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: arizona diamondbacks, colorado rockies, ian stewart, major leagues

When the Colorado Rockies went on a win streak prior to the trade deadline it may have made the front office think twice about dealing away players. No players left Colorado at the deadline. Even closer Brian Fuentes, the most obvious trading chip, was held.
While it could be said that the Rockies didn’t get the [...]



Register called up by Rockies

By john • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: colorado rockies, major leagues, steven register

The Colorado Rockies called up reliever Steven Register from Colorado Springs to take the roster spot of the recently designated for assignment Valerio De Los Santos.
Register who was taken in the Rule 5 draft earlier this year failed to make the New York Mets out of spring training and was returned to the Rockies. The [...]



Josh a Newman after claim by Royals

By john • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: colorado rockies, josh newman, kansas city royals, minor leagues

Josh Newman, 26, has been claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Royals. Newman had struggled at the big league level in stints with the Colorado Rockies but posted a 2.45 ERA while a member of the teams Triple-A affiliate.
Newman still projects as a solid relief pitcher. The left handed Newman posted stellar minor league [...]



Newman headed back to Colorado Springs

By john • May 31st, 2008 • Category: colorado rockies, colorado springs sky sox, josh newman, minor leagues

The Colorado Rockies sent reliever Josh Newman to Triple-A today. Newman had pitched in eight games but the results were not what he or the team had hoped posting a 9.35 ERA during the span.
Newman who got his first taste of the big leagues last season as a September call up had previously pitched in [...]



A reason to like each team

By john • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: arizona diamondbacks, atlanta braves, baltimore orioles, boston red sox, chicago cubs, chicago white sox, cincinatti reds, cleveland indians, colorado rockies, detroit tigers, florida marlins, houston astros, kansas city royals, los angeles angels, los angeles dodgers, milwaukee brewers, minnesota twins, new york mets, new york yankees, oakland a's, philadelphia phillies, pittsburgh pirates, san diego padres, san fransisco giants, seattle mariners, st. louis cardinals, tampa bay rays, texas rangers, toronto blue jays, washington nationals

This is one tough task but I’ve decided to try and fine a reason to like each of the 30 teams in major league baseball. Now some were easier to find then others and while some will disagree for the reasoning I’ve done my best I think.
I hope to continue this series by creating a [...]



Making the Case: Jason Jennings / Franklin Morales

By john • Nov 3rd, 2007 • Category: colorado rockies, franklin morales, jason jennings, taylor buchholz

The most glarring upgrade for the Colorado Rockies would be their starting rotation. Before the start of last season they traded away Jason Jennings, the winningest pitcher in franchise history, for Jason Hirsh, Taylor Buchholz and center fielder Willy Tavares.
In Hirsh the Rockies were getting a 6′8″ righty who dominated Triple-A in 2006. For the [...]



World Series 2007: I’m out

By john • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: 2007 season, 2007 world series, boston red sox, chicago wolf, colorado rockies, san antonio rampage

I tried to withstand it. Really I did.
Tonight Carrie had a class to attend and rather then driving home and coming back, wasting gas in order to be home for an hour, I stayed in the car and waited. I turned on the local sports radio channel as usual and prepared myself to be annoyed [...]



World Series: Rox and Sox on Fox

By john • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: 2007 season, 2007 world series, boston red sox, colorado rockies, ron washington

With respect to the Colorado Rockies and their crazy 21-of-22 wins I don’t see how anyone is going to stop this Boston Red Sox team. The Rockies are pretty much bringing one starter into this battle and in that start he will undoubtly get squashed by the beast that is Josh Beckett.
Ubaldo Jimenez, a rookie [...]



Seth Smith: A deeper look, part 2

By john • Oct 18th, 2007 • Category: colorado rockies, seth smith, tennessee volunteers

Seth Smith went to college at Ole Miss on a football scholarship. However Smith never took a snap in three seasons due to the presence of Eli Manning. Instead Smith was allowed to play baseball where he would find his true calling. Smith was selected in the second round of the Amateur draft by the [...]



Rockies headed to World Series

By john • Oct 16th, 2007 • Category: colorado rockies

Winners of 21-of-22 the Colorado Rockies are headed to their first World Series. Last season the Rockies finished in last place in the NL West and had been ruled out by many at having a chance of making hte playoffs come September.
Of course that failed to take into account the amazing run by the Rockies to finish the season. [...]



Josh Fogg’s case for being a Dragon Slayer

By john • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: colorado rockies, josh fogg

Colorado Rockies pitcher Josh Fogg has been called “Dragon Slayer” due to a few wins this season.
The case of calling Josh Fogg Dragon Slayer is presented below
+ Fogg defeated Mike Pelfry for his first win of the season April 25
+ Fogg defeated 2006 Cy Young award winner Brandon Webb in September
+ Fogg defeated struggling Curt [...]



Colorado hoping to ‘Rock the norm

By john • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: colorado rockies, franklin morales, ubaldo jimenez

The Colorado Rockies are doing something against the norm. Of course losing one game in nearly three weeks isn’t exactly normal either.
After Jeff Francis pitches the first game of the series in Arizona, Colorado will turn things over to two guys with a combined 26 big league starts. (That’s counting their outings against the Philadelphia [...]