{"id":522941,"date":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-giving-the-rockies-a-pre-spring-training-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522941\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Giving the Rockies a pre-spring training grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It has been a news-filled 10 days here at Purple Row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Think about it. Over the course of the last week, the Rockies have done the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As Skyler Timmins noted today,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Add to all that, the Rockies front office is routinely communicating with media. Last week, Paul DePodesta and Josh Byrnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/01\/14\/paul-depodesta-josh-byrnes-job-difference-rockies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">answered an email from Patrick Saunders<\/a> conveying a reader\u2019s question about the front office structure. Earlier today, DePodesta and Michael Lorenzen spoke to media via Zoom. (Look for more on that in the coming days.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Based on what the Rockies have said, they\u2019re not done yet, and adding at least one more veteran starter is in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One thing\u2019s for sure: It\u2019s not your parents\u2019 Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, let\u2019s do a pre-spring training evaluation. (We\u2019ll do this again when spring training has concluded.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Based on what we\u2019ve seen so far, how would you grade the rebuilding Colorado Rockies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a news-filled 10 days here at Purple Row. Think about it. Over the course of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490670,"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-522941","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\/115903019662683965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522941","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=522941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}