{"id":353367,"date":"2025-12-17T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:12:07","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-what-should-the-rockies-do-about-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353367\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: What should the Rockies do about 2B?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I began exploring this question in today\u2019s Rockpile: What should the Colorado Rockies do about second base and infield support in general? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/rockies-news\/77920\/should-the-colorado-rockies-sign-willi-castro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Considering Willi Castro\u2019s candidacy<\/a> seemed like a good place to start.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In-house, the Rockies have Ryan Ritter and Adael Amador. Also, don\u2019t forget that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/colorado-rockies-roster\/74921\/freeman-raked-at-the-plate-tanked-in-the-field\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Freema<\/a>n has experience at second base, and the Rockies have signed an MiLB deal with Nickey Lopez (31, 0.6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With that in mind, here is the list of available free agents, again <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fmlb-free-agents-2025-2026%3Fadobe_mc%3DTS%253D1765900626%257CMCMID%253D28282484438008642775340819210741314687%257CMCORGID%253DA65F776A5245B01B0A490D44%40AdobeOrg%26affiliateId%3Dmlbapp-ios_webview_news-index%26rsid%3Dmlbios.at.bat.new.implementation\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from MLB.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">(Except for Castro, none of these players appear on the salary projection list posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/2025-26-top-50-mlb-free-agents-with-predictions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Note all the Old Friends: Jose Iglesias, Brendan Rodgers, Thairo Estrada, Coco Montes, and Kyle Farmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know how you\u2019d staff this position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I began exploring this question in today\u2019s Rockpile: What should the Colorado Rockies do about second base and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,175710,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-353367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-purple-row-community","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}