Jack O’Dowd has spent the Arizona Fall League making a loud case for attention, and the Colorado Rockies prospect has done it with the kind of power surge that tends to turn heads fast.
The 25-year-old leads the league with six home runs and a .687 slugging percentage, and his performance earned him a spot in Sunday’s Fall Stars Game. For a player who went undrafted two years ago, that’s a pretty eye-catching place to land.
O’Dowd’s path to this point has been anything but conventional. He went undrafted out of Texas in 2024, then hooked on with the independent Billings Mustangs and hit 22 home runs in 2025. Colorado brought him in on a minor league contract last winter, giving him a chance to show what he could do in affiliated ball.
He answered with a strong 2026 season across three minor league levels, batting .307 with 23 home runs, 91 RBIs and a .947 OPS. That kind of production is enough to get noticed on its own, especially for a player who entered the organization without draft-day buzz.
The climb got tougher once he reached Double-A Hartford, where he hit .254 with seven home runs in 51 games. Even so, his showing in the Fall League has offered a sharp rebound and a reminder of why he’s becoming one of the more intriguing names in Colorado’s system.
There’s also a familiar name attached to the story. O’Dowd’s father, Dan O’Dowd, was the Rockies’ general manager from 1999 through 2014 and is now an MLB Network analyst. He’s scheduled to help call Sunday’s Fall Stars Game, which means he may get a front-row view of his son’s latest run.
None of this guarantees anything at the next level. Fall League success is one thing; proving it against better pitching is another, and O’Dowd’s Double-A stretch shows there’s still work ahead.
Still, for a Rockies organization looking for young players to get excited about, O’Dowd’s rise has given them one more reason to watch. Not bad for a player who never heard his name called in the draft.
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