The last time a Major League hitter delivered a .400 batting average over the course of a season was Ted Williams in 1941. Many players have come close since, but none have reached the famed threshold set by the Splendid Splinter.

In the Minors, the seasons are shorter -- especially in

DENVER -- The Rockies’ Trade Deadline activity began early on Monday with an intradivisional, somewhat like-for-like deal with the Dodgers, with hard-throwing righty reliever Nick Frasso going to Colorado for even harder-throwing righty Seth Halvorsen.

The Rockies also acquired a prospect -- Single-A left-handed-hitting outfielder Landyn Vidourek, the Dodgers’ third-round Draft

DENVER – The Rockies’ top three 2026 MLB Draft picks – University of Kentucky switch-hitting shortstop Tyler Bell (10th overall), University of Georgia catcher Daniel Jackson (37th overall) and UCLA right-handed pitcher Logan Reddemann (38th overall) have signed with the club.

DENVER -- Before University of Georgia catcher Daniel Jackson became the first catcher in NCAA Division I history to exceed 25 homers and 25 stolen bases in a season -- and before the Rockies selected him 37th overall in Competitive Balance Round A as one of 21 picks

DENVER – UCLA right-hander Logan Reddemann laughed, realizing that his high school games a few years back were not the same as pitching a mile high at Coors Field – where he plans on making his future after the Rockies selected him in the second round (38th overall)

DENVER -- Maybe University of Kentucky switch-hitting shortstop Tyler Bell was headed to the Rockies all along. The club selected him in the first round, 10th overall, in the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday.

Bell’s father loved skiing and would take the family to Colorado resorts, such as Breckenridge,

LOS ANGELES – Rockies No. 16 prospect and 2022 top Draft pick Gabriel Hughes will make his first Major League start a night earlier than originally planned, taking the hill Wednesday at Dodger Stadium for Colorado's series finale in L.A.

DENVER -- The improved Rockies offense over the past month offers a window into the new front office's philosophy regarding the upcoming MLB Draft.

"We've got to score runs, and we had, generally, a very good month," general manager Josh Byrnes said. "We did it in all ways. We had a

LOS ANGELES – In just shy of a month in the Majors, Cole Carrigg has brought a max-effort game and a live-wire personality. Those traits were on display during an 8-7 loss at Dodger Stadium on Monday night.

It was a game that Carrigg nearly willed the Rockies to

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Charlie Condon did not skip a beat as the calendar flipped to July.

The Rockies’ No. 2 prospect turned in a multihomer performance for the second time in just four days as part of a three-hit day in Triple-A Albuquerque’s 6-5 loss to

DENVER -- Right-handed pitcher Gabriel Hughes arrived at Coors Field on Wednesday for his first day in the Major Leagues to a cleverly lit locker with his name in large, white letters, a plush chair with his No. 43 stitched and applied to the back.

DENVER – Right-hander Gabriel Hughes, the Rockies’ top pick in 2022 and the team’s No. 16 prospect, per MLB Pipeline, won’t be misled by numbers, good or bad.

It might not take much longer for Charlie Condon to make his way to the Rockies, considering he has been one of the hottest hitters in the sport for quite some time now.

Condon, Colorado’s No. 2 prospect and MLB Pipeline’s No. 65 overall, went deep again

DENVER – Rockies No. 2/MLB Pipeline No. 71 prospect Charlie Condon is swinging a productive bat -- and, figuratively, one sharp No. 2 pencil.

Entering Friday night, Condon had produced a .343/.425/.971 slash line over his previous nine games with Triple-A Albuquerque, with six home runs, four

Charlie Condon has been putting on a lot of shows in June with his power.

The Rockies’ No. 2 prospect went yard twice and drove in five runs during Triple-A Albuquerque’s 11-5 win over Salt Lake at Isotopes Park on Sunday. Condon, who

Zac Veen, the Rockies’ first-rounder back in 2020, has hit his stride in Triple-A.

Veen (COL No. 13) extended his hitting streak to 23 games on Tuesday, turning in a three-double performance for Albuquerque in an 11-3 win over Salt Lake at The Ballpark at America First

Benny Montgomery, the eighth overall pick by the Rockies in the 2021 Draft, has retired from professional baseball.

Montgomery, 23, was hitting .203 with a .644 OPS in 41 games this season for Double-A Hartford, where he has spent each of the past three injury-plagued seasons.

He posted a .249/.325/.374 slash line

DENVER -- Rockies No. 13 prospect and onetime top pick Zac Veen launched a Statcast-projected 454-foot home run Friday night for Triple-A Albuquerque against Sugar Land -- to the upper level of the seating berm behind the left-field wall at Isotopes Park.

CHICAGO -- Rockies No. 15 prospect Sterlin Thompson is showing the valuable trait of being ready even though the calls don’t come regularly.

Thompson did not play in Colorado’s first two games at Wrigley Field, but on Wednesday night he knocked his first two Major League home runs and

CHICAGO -- Over his first nine Major League games, Rockies No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg has shown off all the athletic traits that made him the 65th overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft.

In Wednesday night's 8-6 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field, he broke

CHICAGO – Rockies No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg is getting the full Wrigley Field experience. He homered Monday night, and Wednesday was part of the Rockies’ tradition of low-service time guys making a run to a nearby Starbucks for the clubhouse.