The Colorado Rockies may still be buried in the NL West, but their bats are giving them something they didn’t have much of in 2025: real, repeatable offense.
Rockies reporter Patrick Lyons noted that the club has scored seven runs or more in far more games in 2026 than it did across all of 2025. That surge has pushed Colorado into the top 10 in MLB in games with at least seven runs scored, a clear sign that the lineup is producing in a way it simply didn’t a year ago.
There’s been help all over the order. Mickey Moniak, Hunter Goodman, Jake McCarthy and others have all chipped in, and the result is a Rockies offense that looks far more dangerous than the one that limped through last season. For a team still working through a long rebuild under manager Warren Schaeffer, that kind of step forward matters.
And the lineup may not be done growing yet.
Colorado’s top prospect, Charlie Condon, has been tearing up Triple-A pitching in Albuquerque all season, but the Rockies still haven’t brought him up. That decision has raised some eyebrows, especially with Condon putting together a season that demands attention: 22 home runs, 74 runs driven in and a .903 OPS for the Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate.
Those numbers are hard to ignore for a rebuilding club that has spent years selling at the deadline. Condon looks like the kind of bat that could slot right into the middle of the order and make an already improved offense even more dangerous.
For now, the Rockies are waiting. But when the front office decides the time is right, Condon appears ready to add another layer to an offense that has already taken a major jump from 2025.
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