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. 6, Jordan Beck (0.9 rWAR)

After making his MLB debut April 30, 2024 and playing in 55 games in his rookie season, which he ended hitting .188/.245/.276, Jordan Beck looked much more like the promising No. 38 overall 2022 MLB Draft the Rockies hoped he would be in 2025.

Beck hit .258/.317/.416 with 16 homers and 27 doubles with an OPS of .733 in 148 games in 2025. He improved in the outfield, flashing decent range and an arm that made runners think twice. He still struck out too much — 174 times in 539 at-bats (29.6%) — but the 25-year-old former Tennessee Volunteer became the Rockies left fielder.

After starting 35 games in left field in 2024, partly due to a broken hand that put him on the IL for two and half months, Beck started 133 games there in 2025. The 133 games marked the most by one player in left field since Matt Holliday played 138 in LF in 2008. Outside of Carlos González, who is a close second with 131 LF starts in 2012, and Raimel Tapia’s 110 in 2021, left field has seen a rotation of players since 2021, with no one getting more than 86 starts since Tapia.

Beck provided an offensive spark for a team that sorely needed it. He led the team with 19 stolen bases and 43 walks. He finished second on the team in doubles (one behind Hunter Goodman’s 28) and runs scored (62), while tying for second in triples (5). Beck ended third in homers (behind Goodman’s 31 and Mickey Moniak’s 24) and fourth in RBI with 53.

At the same time, with the Rockies dropping 119 games, in large part due to a weak offense, being among the team leaders in offensive categories has to be taken with a grain of salt. But with Ezequiel Tovar and Brenton Doyle having down seasons either due to injuries or decreased production, and Ryan McMahon being traded to the Yankees, Beck stepped up in his first full MLB season.

He made his mark early in the year with an amazing power surge. About a month into the season, Beck hit five home runs in two days — three in a doubleheader vs. the Royals on April 24 and two more against the Reds on April 25.

In May, he started the month with a 10-game hitting streak. During the stretch, Beck totalled 12 hits, including two doubles, two triples, one homer, three RBI and scored eight runs with a slashline of .279/.295/.488 with a .784 OPS.

He notched two two-homer games in the season with the second coming on May 17 against Arizona, including one blast off Zac Gallen.

Beck floated around in the first, second and third spots in the batting lineup, but had his most at-bats in the cleanup spot (203 at-bats in 55 games), which he assumed more regularly as the season went on. Batting fourth, Beck hit .227/.299/.330 with four homers, nine doubles, 16 RBI and a .629 slugging percentage. Though he only had 66 at-bats in the No. 3 hole, he was better at that spot. He hit .409/.443/.636 with three homers, 12 RBI and four doubles with a 1.079 OPS.

In the field, Beck posted the highest defensive runs saved mark of regularly starting outfielders at 1. He had 268 put outs, 12 assists and three errors, while also taking part in two double plays. However, he finished at -2 outs above average and a -3.7 defensive ranking, according to FanGraphs.

His route running to pop flies and line drives started out a little shaky, but as the year went on, he got better and better. His athleticism helped him make adjustments, like he did in this double play, leaping grab.

Another of his best plays came when he threw out former Rockie Nolan Arenado, who was trying to stretch a single into a double.

As the competitive balance pick the Rockies got for Trevor Story in the 2022 MLB Draft, Beck’s quick arrival to the majors in 2024 and progress in 2025 was welcome news in a season full of bad baseball. Of course, with a new front office and all possibilities on the table for 2026 and the Rockies future, Beck will have to earn his spot next season, but he certainly took a nice step forward in 2025.

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