{"id":672822,"date":"2026-04-10T23:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672822\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:39:47","slug":"mlbs-rockies-bring-in-broncos-owners-greg-penner-carrie-walton-penner-as-minority-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672822\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB&#8217;s Rockies bring in Broncos owners Greg Penner, Carrie Walton Penner as minority partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies are off to a 6-7 start this season. They made big changes in the offseason after a third straight year with 100 or more losses. The front office is now led by Paul DePodesta, the president of baseball operations, and general manager Josh Byrnes.<\/p>\n<p>The Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-owners-approve-walton-penner-family-s-purchase-of-denver-broncos-franchise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought<\/a> the Broncos from the Pat Bowlen Trust in August 2022 for a then-record $4.65 billion. Walmart heir Rob Walton also is an owner, while Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, Mellody Hobson and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice serve as limited partners.<\/p>\n<p>Denver made it to the AFC Championship Game last season before losing, 10-7, to the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While our focus remains firmly on the Broncos, we look forward to being supportive, long-term partners of the Rockies and Major League Baseball,&#8221; the Penners said in a joint statement. &#8220;We&#8217;ve enjoyed getting to know the Monforts and are grateful to join Dick and Charlie in the Rockies&#8217; ownership group along with the other partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies are off to a 6-7 start this season. They made big changes in the offseason after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[1769,5,10364,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,169,21823],"class_list":{"0":"post-672822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","12":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-playoffs","15":"tag-mlb-postseason","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-no-minute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116383055829252204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672822","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=672822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}