Welcome to the 2025 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2025. 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). It’s not something the staff debated. We’ll begin with the player with the lowest rWAR and end up with the player with the highest.

No. 30, Nick Martini (-0.2 rWAR)

Before you could even enjoy a purple martini, the Nick Martini experiment in Colorado was over.

The Rockies signed the then 34-year-old left-handed journeyman outfielder on Jan. 17 to a Minor League deal. The former A, Padre, Cub and Red, who also played in Korea in 2022, even earned a spot in right field on the Opening Day roster. Fifty-three days later, after playing in 43 games, on May 30, the Rockies released Martini, and he spent the rest of 2025 in the A’s Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators.

Martini earned a roster and Opening Day starting spot after an impressive performance in spring training. That carried over into the regular season. In his first 17 games, he hit. 317/.391/.366 with an OPS of .757, two doubles, five runs scored, one RBI, five walks and eight strikeouts in 46 plate appearances. The run production wasn’t huge, but that wasn’t only Martini’s fault, as the Rockies were 3-14 at that point on April 19.

It was all downhill from there for Martini as he hit .164/.215/.246 with an OPS of .461 in his final 26 games with the Rockies, hitting a homer, two doubles, scoring four runs and driving in three in 65 plate appearances. The Rockies win ratio got even worse as they went 4-22 in that stretch. But the stretch did include his one and only homer as a Rockie.

On May 30, 19 days after Colorado fired Bud Black, the Rockies cut Martini. He ended his tenure in purple with a slashline of .225/.288/.294 with an OPS of .582 in 111 plate appearances in 43 games. On June 2, he then elected free agency rather than play in Triple-A Albuquerque, and signed with Las Vegas Aviators three days later. He didn’t play in another game in the Majors for the rest of the season. While his numbers were an improvement from a challenging 2024 that included thumb surgery in Cincinnati, they were still well below his six-year career numbers of .248/.328/.382 with an OPS of. 711.

Martini played 17 games in the outfield, 15 in right field and two in left. He also started 18 games at DH. An average defender in his career, Martini posted -1 outs above average and two defensive runs saved in Colorado, but does have an above-average arm, which the Tampa Bay Rays found out on the second day of the season.

Martini also flashed his abilities and range in the field with this catch in April against the Padres.

The Martini chapter in Colorado had its moments, but was very short. In the end, Martini was one of many veterans the organization signed in the preseason to a minor league deal that didn’t pan out and added another name to an already crowded outfield.