Picture this: It’s the summer of 2027, and two emerging stars are making Coors Field a true baseball draw again.
The Rockies are competitive for the first time in a decade, and just wrapped up a critical late-August series win over the Dodgers. Chase Dollander spun a gem to catapult Colorado into first place in the NL West, and first-time all-star Jordan Beck hit the game-winning homer, his 30th of the year.
While that may seem like a purple-tinted tableau right now, as the Rockies are tracking toward another 100-loss season, it could be reality. Dollander and Beck, once college teammates at Tennessee, have all the tools to be pillars of the Rockies’ resurgence in due time.