Given how difficult it can be to find good pitching for Coors Field in Denver, the progress of any quality pitcher in the Colorado Rockies’ system is worth noting.
Despite a winning record in 2024 at 67-64, the Colorado Rockies Low-A affiliate Fresno Grizzlies missed the playoffs. They entered the 2025 campaign with perhaps the weakest (on paper) roster of any Rockies farm team.
Let’s keep the mid-season 2025 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list reveal rolling! Today are prospects 25-21. As a reminder, in this edition of the PuRPs poll, 23 ballots were cast, with 30 points granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc.
Cox was the Rockies’ second-round pick in 2022, but had Tommy John surgery in 2023 and is still making his way back Cox was Colorado’s second-round pick in 2022, 50th overall, out of a rural high school in Washington state — the only high school player the Rockies drafted in that class.