{"id":597483,"date":"2026-02-28T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597483\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:57:23","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-if-you-could-put-any-colorado-baseball-player-from-history-on-the-2026-rockies-who-would-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597483\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: If you could put any Colorado baseball player from history on the 2026 Rockies, who would it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Let\u2019s get historical tonight!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was a discussion we had in our SB Nation managers Slack channel today, so I\u2019d like to pose the question to you. The Rockies are turning 33 this year, so they don\u2019t have a long, storied history like other franchises such as the Yankees or the Cubs. But they do still have two Hall of Famers and plenty of history to choose from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, if you could put any Colorado baseball player from history on the 2026 Rockies, who would it be?<\/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":"Let\u2019s get historical tonight! This was a discussion we had in our SB Nation managers Slack channel today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,50,167,52,4316,1009,161,77919,1023,4,168,1605,1033,142],"class_list":["post-597483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-coors-field","tag-cubs","tag-jay-payton","tag-larry-walker","tag-mlb","tag-rockies","tag-the-rockies","tag-todd-helton","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116146486931987349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597483","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=597483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}