Colorado Rockies: Top 50 Rockies of All-Time 40-31

36. Garrett Atkins (Rockies career WAR: 5.3)
Rocktober is strongly represented in this installment. He was a bat-first third-baseman that like the last player on this list had his career year in 2006. He slashed .329/.409/.556 with 29 HR and 120 RBI for an OPS+ of 136. Showing flashes of stardom when he was just supposed to be keeping the seat warm for top prospect of the time Ian Stewart.
He didn’t let go of his hold on the position until he fell off a cliff in 2009 and was out of baseball by 2010. We can always look back fondly on the first 6 years of his career in the Mile-High City though.