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The best baseball players born on Jan. 15

January 14, 2026

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar.

Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 15.

Jennings' two-way heroics place him atop list of great Rockies debuts

@harding_at_mlb
January 10, 2026

DENVER – Jason Jennings started his Major League career with the Rockies by doing it all – same as he ever had.

Jennings won the 1999 Golden Spikes Award as the nation’s top amateur player by tying the Baylor University record for wins (13) and setting the mark for strikeouts (172)

Every Rule 5 Draft pick in Rockies history

@harding_at_mlb
December 18, 2025

DENVER -- The Rockies’ history in the Rule 5 Draft has been full of interesting characters, not to mention a few players who have helped them and other teams.

Over the years, some players -- including right-handed reliever Tommy Kahnle (2013) and infielder Luis A. González ('03) -- have contributed for

Holliday's slide in 2007 sits atop Rockies' 10 best moments

@harding_at_mlb
December 8, 2025

DENVER – Full stands at Coors Field while something utterly strange but totally pleasing occurs on the field. That’s the best in Rockies baseball.

A dazed Matt Holliday and a delirious fan base represent the top moment in Rockies history.

The best baseball players born on Sept. 23

@castrovince
September 23, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar.

Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 23:

These are the longest Coors Field moonshots

@harding_at_mlb
September 20, 2025

Here are the longest homers at Coors Field since the advent of Statcast in 2015:

The best baseball players born on Aug. 14

August 14, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar.

Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Aug. 14:

Top-tier duo make up Rox retired numbers

@harding_at_mlb
December 1, 2021

DENVER -- Rockies star Todd Helton's No. 17 made it to the Coors Field rafters first, at the end of his 17-year career. Then Larry Walker's No. 33 finally went up in 2021, after the outfielder who wore it -- the Rockies first true superstar -- was inducted to the

Rox's all-time biggest Winter Meetings moves

@harding_at_mlb
December 6, 2024

DENVER -- The Rockies’ biggest Winter Meetings move was nowhere near successful. But it tops this list for its shock and lasting impact.

5 Rockies greats not in the Hall of Fame

@harding_at_mlb
January 25, 2024

DENVER -- The door to the Baseball Hall of Fame is open to the Rockies, thanks to the elections of Larry Walker in 2021 and Todd Helton in 2024. Will another Rockies player stroll through the opening anytime soon?

Walker played 10 of his 17 seasons with

Coors Field the likeliest spot to see a cycle

@harding_at_mlb
May 9, 2024

DENVER -- Coors Field is the best place in the history of the sport for a hitter to accomplish a cycle -- a single, double, triple and home run in the same game.

But, at the same time, what has happened to the cycle at Coors?

Coors has hosted 18 cycles --

Rockies' top Draft pick from every season

@harding_at_mlb
July 15, 2024

Todd Helton is not only a Hall of Famer after a 17-season career with the Rockies. He also is the standard bearer for players drafted and developed by the club. He was selected in 1995, and the rest is, thanks to the 2024 election, Cooperstown history.

How have the

Looking back at Rockies' no-hitter history

Márquez the latest close call since Ubaldo's big moment in 2010
June 29, 2021

Seventeen years after Major League Baseball came to Colorado in 1993, the Rockies saw their first no-hitter thrown, when Ubaldo Jiménez made franchise history in 2010. And despite Germán Márquez firing a valiant one-hit shutout on June 29, 2021, the club is still searching for its second

Every Rockies player to win NL batting title

@harding_at_mlb
January 29, 2021

DENVER -- The Mile High City can’t quite be called the home of the National League batting championship, but it’s not out of line to call Denver its favorite vacation home.

In the Rockies’ 28 seasons in the Majors, one of their players has won the batting crown 11 times, starting

Rockies' best single-game hitting displays

@harding_at_mlb
January 11, 2021

DENVER -- Nolan Arenado commemorated the greatest offensive performance in Rockies history with blood and sweat while Coors Field erupted in cheers.

And while the famous Father’s Day cycle of 2017 -- when Arenado's walk-off, three-run homer gave the Rockies a come-from-behind, 7-5 victory over the Giants -- tops this list,

Rockies' Top 5 catchers: Harding's take

@harding_at_mlb
March 24, 2020

_No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun

Remembering Tsao's unusual baseball career

@harding_at_mlb
December 17, 2019

DENVER -- The Rockies thought putting then-18-year-old Chin-hui Tsao against big leaguers, even for an inning in a Spring Training game on March 18, 2000, was too much, too soon.

But Tim Ireland, then working as the organization’s Pacific Rim scouting coordinator, knew that Tsao’s appearance would whet Major League appetites.

The

Rockies' all-time best GM: Harding's take

@harding_at_mlb
June 23, 2020

DENVER -- Bob Gebhard went from the top of the baseball world, as assistant general manager of the 1991 World Series champion Twins, to, well nothing.

And everything.

Rockies' best: C | 1B | 2B | 3B | <a

Top 10 comical moments in Rockies history

@harding_at_mlb
November 24, 2019

DENVER -- Some of the best players in Rockies history have provided some of the biggest laughs. And the special climate also has provided some levity.

Let’s look at the moments:

1. “Why exactly am I pitching right now?"
July 30, 2011
The crawler at the bottom of all the

Rockies' Top 5 second basemen: Harding's take

@harding_at_mlb
April 7, 2020

_No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun

Rockies' Top 5 left fielders: Harding's take

@harding_at_mlb
April 28, 2020

_No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. Love this list? Hate it?

You heard the HR calls, now hear the stories

Rockies broadcasters dish on origins of their trademark phrases
@harding_at_mlb
November 22, 2020

DENVER -- If you pick up a ball that fits in your hand, then baseball grabs you. And your next goal is to hit that ball a long way. And as soon as you sock one in the backyard, in a sandlot, in an alley, on a street, even in

Rockies' Top 5 third basemen: Harding's take

@harding_at_mlb
April 13, 2020

_No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. Love this list? Hate it?

Coors Field predates Wrigley? One part does

@harding_at_mlb
January 7, 2021

DENVER -- Coors Field opened in 1995 and is the third-oldest park in the National League, behind Dodger Stadium and Wrigley Field. But part of Coors predates even Wrigley.

The right-field corner of the ballpark -- at 22nd Avenue and Blake Street -- is a four-story brick structure known as the

Top 5 single games by Rockies pitchers

@harding_at_mlb
January 18, 2021

DENVER -- In the strange history of Rockies pitching, the team’s only no-hitter doesn’t even qualify as the best single-game performance.

Also, three of these games occurred at Coors Field, where stellar pitching is supposed to be close to impossible.

Let’s start our list of the Rockies’ top five single-game pitching performances