SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Zac Veen’s first Major League extra-base hit – an RBI double off the base of the right-field wall at Coors Field last April 10 – was a hopeful event.

DENVER -- The Rockies have announced their non-roster invitees to Spring Training. The list features 20 players, including six from among the organization’s top 30 prospects per MLB Pipeline.

NEW YORK -- The Yankees added a hard-throwing project to their bullpen mix on Wednesday, acquiring right-hander Angel Chivilli from the Rockies in exchange for Minor League first baseman T.J. Rumfield.

TRADE DETAILS
Yankees get: RHP Angel Chivilli
Rockies get: 1B T.J. Rumfield (Yankees' No. 22 prospect,

It’s a new era of Rockies baseball with Paul DePodesta at the helm as the club’s president of baseball operations. For any organization seeking sustained success, a surefire way to maintain a competitive roster is to build from within, and the international market offers that kind of opportunity.

So Colorado opened

DENVER -- New Rockies leadership is devoted to correcting what’s wrong, but new president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta believes first-base prospect Charlie Condon (MLB Pipeline No. 61/Rockies No. 2) is high on the list of what’s going right.

Selected third overall out of Georgia in 2024,

DENVER -- Rockies No. 14 prospect Gabriel Hughes, a right-handed pitcher who was the team’s top Draft pick in 2022, experienced a stop sign on what looked like a quick trip to the Majors last season. But it may have been the pause Hughes needed.

Hughes missed the 2024

DENVER – In an organization that has regularly made ready-or-not calls to its pitching prospects, Rockies No. 19 prospect Welinton Herrera pitched in the Arizona Fall League like a guy who just might be ready when the call comes.

Herrera, 21, a left-handed reliever, became a fast-rising prospect this

LAS VEGAS – New Rockies president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta has immediate assignments of hiring a general manager and a field manager, plus setting policies to revamp information gathering and teaching throughout the organization. But the biggest duties – improving the talent, or making the talent better

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DENVER -- The fast lane became the normal path to the Majors for Rockies players in recent years.

Righty reliever Cade Denton began at a careful pace, but he is pressing the accelerator in the Arizona Fall League.

Three members of the 2023 Draft class have appeared -- righty starting pitcher Chase

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Fall League’s five-hit club should come with a jacket.

Entering Wednesday, there had been only seven individual single-game performances on the prospect showcase circuit since 2017. One was by the Braves' NL Rookie of the Year candidate Drake Baldwin last year. Three more came from current

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For some players, the Arizona Fall League can act like a last-chance saloon.

The AFL is known widely as a showcase circuit, providing opportunity for some of the game’s best prospects to get in more work before the offseason begins. It’s also a shot for Minor Leaguers with upcoming Rule 5

DENVER -- During the time that the Rockies’ future is being contemplated, No. 8 prospect Jared Thomas and No. 2 prospect prospect Charlie Condon have provided a window into the possibilities.

Playing for the Arizona Fall League’s Salt River Rafters, Thompson and Condon each launched grand slams

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ATLANTA -- As Termarr Johnson and Xzavion Curry walked out of Benjamin E. Mays High School’s main building earlier this week, students on the baseball team and cheerleading squad followed. Outside, a large truck sat at the curb. Johnson and Curry, two Mays High alums, stopped behind the truck and

DENVER -- Rockies No. 1/MLB Pipeline No. 17 prospect Ethan Holliday watched part of the flight of the last and most memorable blast of an impressive batting practice at Coors Field on Friday.