Colorado Rockies: Four Players Who Are Rocking Spring Training

Let’s face it. There has been plenty of bad news coming out of the Colorado Rockies spring training compound in Scottsdale lately. The announcement on Tuesday that Tom Murphy would miss four to six weeks with a hairline fracture in his forearm had some people wondering exactly what the Rockies had done to anger the baseball gods.

There’s also been some bad news as far as how some of the Rockies have performed thus far in spring training. We highlighted three performances that are underwhelming in this article. We should mention that Miguel Castro’s spring had gotten so bad that he has already been assigned to Triple-A to start the season.

OK, there’s plenty of bad stuff to talk about. But how about we focus on some good things here? Sure, there have been injuries, but at least Nolan Arenado didn’t hurt himself with his head-first slide for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, right? Jon Gray walked three batters in his outing yesterday against Oakland but he also struck out six. That’s called looking for the silver lining.

In our quest for the silver lining of Colorado’s spring, let’s take a look at four Rockies players who are absolutely having a monster spring so far.

*Note: All statistics are through March 14 games