{"id":507541,"date":"2026-01-06T07:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507541\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:14:17","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-how-long-will-it-take-for-the-rockies-to-rebuild-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507541\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: How long will it take for the Rockies to rebuild?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This morning, I was listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/siriusxm.zgkv.net\/c\/482924\/302649\/4694?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.siriusxm.com%2Fchannels%2Fmlb-network-radio\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPower Alley\u201d<\/a> on the MLB Radio Network as they did their pre-season organizational evaluations. As luck would have it, the Colorado Rockies were the subject of today\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The entire show today is worth your time, and you can listen to it via the Sirius XM app if you\u2019re a subscriber. (Sorry, but there\u2019s no way for me to share a transcript.) But one of the things that stayed with me in Mike Ferrin and Jim Duquette\u2019s discussion was how long it would take the Rockies to become competitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A generous estimate was four years though perhaps as long as eight seemed more reasonable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">(Both see the Rockies as largely bereft of talent, both in the farm system and on the MLB roster.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So here\u2019s tonight\u2019s question: How long will it take for the Rockies to become competitive again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning, I was listening to \u201cPower Alley\u201d on the MLB Radio Network as they did their pre-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,12123,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-507541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-purple-row-community","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115846923150893813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}