{"id":530378,"date":"2026-01-21T05:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:27:13","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-predict-the-rockies-outfield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/530378\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Predict the Rockies outfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Now that we\u2019re going closer to spring training, let\u2019s get serious about projecting what the Colorado Rockies outfield will look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since I first asked this question, the Rockies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-roster\/78706\/colorado-rockies-2026-arbitration-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reached arbitration agreements with their players;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reached arbitration agreements with their players<\/a> (including three outfielders) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-news\/78758\/colorado-rockies-news-trade-rockies-acquire-of-jake-mccarthy-arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:traded for Jake McCarthy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">traded for Jake McCarthy<\/a>. We also know that Willi Castro and Troy Johnston have outfield experience.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Their abundance of outfielders is well documented, but we\u2019re also getting a better sense of Paul DePodesta\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So here\u2019s tonight\u2019s question: When the season starts, who will be playing outfield for the Rockies, and who do you see starting in ABQ or being moved?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Please keep in mind our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/pages\/purple-row-rules-and-regulations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines<\/a>\u00a0when you\u2019re commenting. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that we\u2019re going closer to spring training, let\u2019s get serious about projecting what the Colorado Rockies outfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,3917,4,177,15487,168,1605,22739,129],"class_list":["post-530378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-mlb","tag-outfield","tag-outfielders","tag-rockies","tag-the-rockies","tag-troy-johnston","tag-willi-castro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115931437187054533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530378","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=530378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}