Colorado Rockies Links: The Brewers Are Back, Y'all!

Apr 8, 2015; Milwaukee, WI, USA; Colorado Rockies left fielder C. Gonzalez (5) is greeted in the dugout after hitting a 2-run homer in the eighth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports

The Colorado Rockies take on the Milwaukee Brewers in Denver beginning tonight, which should give us all fond feelings of an Opening Day series long gone…

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We got the Milwaukee Brewers again, y’all! Remember Opening Day? When things were fresh, and the Colorado Rockies had so much potential tow in games, and then they swept the Brewers and we were all like, hey, this team will probably go 162-0, this is incredible, let’s ride this out!

And then… it didn’t get ridden out, and things got pretty bad, pretty quickly. So that sucked. But now the Brewers are back! We can re-live the magic, we can get the gang back together, we can sweep another series! Yay (maybe).

Either way, things haven’t exactly gone right for the Rockies or the Brewers this year, and now, they meet in what will probably be a weekend slop-fest at Coors Field. Before we get to that, though (series preview coming later today), let’s go through some important links first:

Playing the right way? (Just A Bit Outside).
Just… please, read every word of that before you criticize Yasiel Puig about his style of play. Or anyone, really. Yours ain’t the prevailing perspective on baseball, man (and neither’s mine).

MLB says it’s exploring new safety measures (Boston Globe).
This comes after we — and a lot of other people — asked about putting up protective netting to protect fans from the worst case scenarios with foul balls and errant bats.

Cardinals investigated for hacking into Astros’ database (New York Times).
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THE FUTURE IS HERE BASEBALL TEAMS ARE HACKING EACH OTHER LIKE SONY AND NORTH KOREA AND CHINA AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW IT’S LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A MOVIE I AM WEIRDLY EXCITED BY THIS. But for real, the Cardinals are cheaters and let’s be honest about that.

The Top 200 Prospect List (FanGraphs).
This is old (four months old, to be exact), but I got lost on Wednesday reading this for over an hour to see what FanGraphs said about the players on the list — including several Colorado Rockies’ farm hands like Jon Gray, Eddie Butler, and David Dahl. It’s a neat exercise to go back and see what FanGraphs had to say about guys who are now in the big leagues (or will be very shortly).

Milwaukee Brewers’ Trade Candidates (Reviewing The Brew).
It’s been that kind of season in Milwaukee, with the Brewers ready to trade, well, pretty much everybody (sound familiar, Rockies fans?). Here’s a good rundown of some Brewers that you may not see in a Milwaukee uniform much longer than this series.

Some reasons to (not) worry about Eddie Butler (Purple Row).
Verdict: Eric Garcia McKinley is still my favorite Rockies’ writer.

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By Bobby DeMuro | Jun 19, 2015

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