{"id":445890,"date":"2026-02-03T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445890\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:26:08","slug":"purple-row-after-dark-whos-a-player-whose-rockies-career-you-wish-wasnt-cut-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445890\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Row After Dark: Who\u2019s a player whose Rockies career you wish wasn\u2019t cut short?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Yesterday in The Feed, porter_engle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/post\/3tg8iLSAzhpP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:asked;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">asked <\/a>the question \u201cName the Rockies draft pick you wish had turned out better.\u201d They then identified Kyle Hancock as their pick, and asked the community to weigh in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019d like to spin that off this evening in the form of a different question:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Who\u2019s a player whose Rockies career you wish wasn\u2019t cut short, either due to injuries, being traded\/released, walking in free agency, etc.?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For me, it\u2019s always going to be Troy Tulowitzki. He was my first favorite Rockie, and he was on a potential Hall of Fame trajectory if his entire baseball career wasn\u2019t marred by injuries. And then, of course, he was also traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, which left a sour taste in everyone\u2019s mouth for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What about you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Please keep in mind our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/pages\/purple-row-rules-and-regulations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u00a0Purple Row Community Guidelines<\/a>\u00a0when you\u2019re commenting. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday in The Feed, porter_engle asked the question \u201cName the Rockies draft pick you wish had turned out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[374,1230,2934,363,99,364,209624],"class_list":{"0":"post-445890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-colorado-rockies","10":"tag-getty-images","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-troy-tulowitzki"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445890","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=445890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}