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Rockies can't afford to get the 2025 MLB Draft wrong

Here's a look at who the Rockies should be targeting with the No. 4 pick in July
ByGeorge Ferguson|
Apr 30, 2025; Denver, Colorado, USA; Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black (10) looks on in the first inning against the Atlanta Braves at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images
Apr 30, 2025; Denver, Colorado, USA; Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black (10) looks on in the first inning against the Atlanta Braves at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images | Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images

The Colorado Rockies are having a historically bad start to the new season. At this point, it’s become old news.

In Denver, the fact that the Monfort brothers seem to be completely uninterested in upping Colorado’s free agent singing game has also become old news.

So, the Rockies will try and turn their franchise around the old fashioned way — through drafting and through developing players. In today’s MLB, that’s a slow, painful process, but, it doesn’t mean it won’t work. 

And though the Rockies’ impending horrible 2025 season laughingly won’t earn them the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 MLB Draft (they’re ineligible for that pick), the 2025 MLB Draft is just two months away, and it’s going to be a big one for Colorado.

With former high draft picks like Chase Dollander and newly acquired Mickey Moniak fast-tracked to the big leagues, the Rockies can certainly offer an attractive option to some of the top talent in this year’s draft. And that offer is, hurry up and play well in the minors and you’ll be in Denver before you know it.

And with the fourth pick in the draft this season, the Rockies should be able to grab a really good future prospect. 

What do the Rockies need though? Well, they need everything. And so if they could get No. 1 overall prospect Ethan Holliday at No. 4, they have to take him. Like his brother Jackson, Ethan is a can’t miss prospect and could be Colorado’s third basemen of the future. 

That said, a future left-handed starter would be critical to Colorado’s improvement as well. Florida State’s Jamie Arnold fits that mold perfectly. And, as a veteran college pitcher, Arnold’s path to the bigs could be much faster then a high school player like Holliday. LHP starters Kyson Witherspoon of LSU and Liam Doyle of Tennessee are also strong first-round options. 

No question though, the Rockies need pitching much more then they truly need infielders and outfielders, so one of those left-handers is probably what the scouting department should be targeting. 

No matter what though, the Rockies can’t afford to mess this No. 4 overall pick up. They need to grab a player who can be part of the longterm solution in Colorado, much like Dollander is now. 

It is the Rockies, and that organization can mess up a lot, but, let us all hope they can continue to draft right, because that is one thing the front office has done well recently.

Rockies 2025 Draft Picks

No. 4 (1st)

No. 45 (2nd)

No. 74 (Competitive B)

No. 77 (3rd)

No. 107 (4th)

No. 138 (5th)

In all remaining rounds Rockies pick 2nd

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