Tulo and Dex are missing from tonight's lineup, but Dex is the only on that has a chance of coming back anytime soon. Tulo is out 4-6 weeks with rib issues. Thankfully Cargo is in the lineup after taking a foul ball off the foot in yesterday's loss. ROCKIES LINEUP 1. Josh Rutledge (R) 2B 2. Jonathan Herrera (S) SS 3. Carlos Gonzalez (L) LF 4. Michael Cuddyer (R) RF 5. Todd Helton (L) ... [MORE]

The Rockies have finally made a couple of moves that the RWOers have been screaming for weeks. Jon Garland was designated for assignment and Jeff Francis is taking Garland's spot on the pitching staff. While Garland did pitch as expected, it was with the expectation that the Rockies are playing for next year. But they are in the thick of the race and we changed to the win now mode ... [MORE]

The Rockies find themselves in the enviable position of holding a full house when it comes to the 2013 MLB draft. The Astros have the Royal Flush and the Cubs the Straight Flush, but the Rockies could have a winning hand if they play their cards right. The projected player to go first is RHP Mark Appel from Stanford. Jonathan Gray, another RHP, is thought to go second. That would leave ... [MORE]

Major League Baseball will seek to suspend about 20 players connected to the Miami-area clinic at the heart of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun The breaking news can be found on ESPN OTL: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9301536/major-league-baseball-suspend-18-players-including-alex-rodriguez-ryan-braun-part-miami-investigat

I was reading the article by Patrick Saunders in the DP earlier (he basically says the next 3 series against SF, AZ and @SF will determine the season) and it got me thinking....what results would I be happy with? For the sake of argument I'm not putting tonight's game against the Cubs in this  discussion although a win tonight would help us come home on a positive note. Without doing any research ... [MORE]

Hey guys, I am going on my annual work trip to Asia and I need to find someone willing to cover Thursday for the pre/post game write-ups.  I've had Jeem helping out over the past year for many of the writing duties, as you all know, and  RockyMountainHigh has been taking over a couple of days a week as well.  I'd love to find a few of you that wouldn't mind taking a ... [MORE]

Didn't mean to start a whole new discussion, but not sure where to put this.  I just read on another sports site the the MLB blackout rules (for the most part) will be gone next season, including the horrible Fox Saturday blackouts! Sorry if I'm late to the party with this info, I just hadn't seen it.  Not sure how it will effect (or is is 'affect'-I can never remember) the ... [MORE]

The MLB Network released their All-Time Rockies Starting Lineup a bit back, and it got me thinking about what you guys think would be an all-time starting 9 for the boys in purple.  Here is what the MLB Network thinks is the perfect lineup, as well as a little "poll" for what you think they got right (or wrong)... ALL TIME STARTING 9 Eric Young 2B Ellis Burks CF Larry Walker RF Todd Helton 1B Matt Holliday LF Troy Tulowitzki SS Vinny ... [MORE]

As just about everyone in the baseball media has pointed out there has been a move towards hiring managers without a lot of managing experience, especially in the minors, but in every case the players were known as good not great players who were hard-nosed and hard-working. The best player of the bunch - Gibson in Arizona, remains the only MVP Winner who never made an AS game (that stat ... [MORE]

Arenado is tearing it up at the springs with an OPS of 1.397 - which even for the PCL is exceptional. On the other hand Nelson has shown no power and a rag doll arm. He's had a tough time reaching first and that bad throw home against SF cost us a game. I think Helton has saved him at least 3 errors on balls in the dirt which were NOT rushed throws. ... [MORE]