TODD HELTON RUMORS & GOSSIP

Manning, Helton work out with former coach

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Rockies first baseman Todd Helton have been working out at Duke this week, an athletic department spokesman says Thursday. The spokesman said both are there primarily to visit David Cutcliffe, who was Tennessee's offensive coordinator when both were college quarterbacks. The cover was blown earlier Thursday when Matt...
Via Fox Sports Tennessee  |  4 days ago

The Rockies Fountain of Youth

The Colorado Rockies have been a youthful team for over a decade. Except for Todd Helton, they have unsuccessfully tried to thrive on young minor league talent in their system to supplement the wandering free agents. For the middle years of the last decade they were known as “Todd and the Toddlers”. Well, that will no longer be the case in Denver, Colorado on opening day 2012...
Via Rant Sports  |  18 days ago

Players to Celebrate in 2012: Todd Helton

This is the third part of a series celebrating players we have enjoyed watching for many years who we might be seeing for the last time in 2012. Today we celebrate Todd Helton. Helton actually has a contract that runs through 2013, but the Colorado icon is 38 and the contract was front loaded and he wouldn't be leaving a large sum of money on the table to walk away after this coming...
Via The Flagrant Fan  |  January 12, 2012

Do the right thing, send Todd Helton to the All-Star Game

Follow me on this one. If Todd Helton is an All-Star in 2011, it may just be what punches his ticket to Cooperstown.Helton, at this current moment in time, is a borderline Hall-of-Famer. He has had a great career, but playing in Colorado, both because of the altitude and the lack of exposure, has left the Tennessee native as an easy player to write off. It is very conceivable that...
Via Rockies Review  |  July 07, 2011

Todd Helton deserves to be an All-Star

In August, Todd Helton will turn 38-years old.For years, many hardcore Rockies fans in Colorado have been saying that the first baseman is washed up. For years he was blamed for taking up a huge portion of the team payroll. People said that he was the most overpaid player in the game. Popular sports writers criticized his declining game.They were all wrong.Helton has been nothing...
Via Rockies Review  |  June 17, 2011

Tulowitzki and Helton lead Rockies to much needed series win

Has the page finally turned? Did the Colorado Rockies finally get that big hit that will open the flood gates to the rest of the big hits that they will get for the rest of the season?On Wednesday afternoon at Petco Park the Rockies looked like a completely different team then they did through the first eight games of the road trip, and frankly, a different team then they have been...
Via Rockies Review  |  June 08, 2011

What if Pujols follows Helton’s career trajectory?

During Friday night’s St. Louis Cardinals telecast, the two first basemen, Albert Pujols of the Cardinals and the home Colorado Rockies’ Todd Helton, were pictured chatting at first base by the FOX Sports Midwest cameras. Broadcasters Dan McLaughlin and Ricky Horton stepped aside from calling balls and strikes, spending a fair amount of time discussing how much Pujols has admired...
Via The Cardinal Nation blog  |  May 29, 2011

Todd Helton is playing well for the Colorado Rockies

37-year old lefty swinging 1B Todd Helton is playing well for the Colorado Rockies so far this year. Last season, Helton played in only 118 games in which he was 102 for 398 (.256 avg, .729 OPS) with 48 runs scored, 8 homers and 37 RBIs. Many thought Helton was near the end of he line, even the Rockies did as they signed Ty Wigginton last winter, just in case. Helton has played...
Via Rockies Locker  |  May 17, 2011

Todd Helton is off to a good start for the Colorado Rockies

37-year old lefty swinging 1B Todd Helton looked like he was toast in 2010. He played in 118 games last season for the Rockies and he was 102 of 398 (.256 avg, .728 OPS) with 48 runs scored, 8 homers and 37 RBIs. Helton last hit 20 homers way back in the 2005 season for the Rockies as his power seemed to have left him. But, he’s on fire right now with the bat and the Rockies...
Via Rockies Locker  |  April 27, 2011

Helton homers Colorado Rockies to victory at Wrigley

The lineup seemed like a blast from the past, featuring Todd Helton in the three-hole.The way Helton played, no one was questioning Jim Tracy's decision to put the grizzly veteran in that spot.Helton delivered for the Rockies, hitting not one, but two home runs, giving the Rockies a bump that carried them to a 5-4 victory over the Cubs, and a series win, with hopes of going home...
Via Rockies Review  |  April 26, 2011
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