Good News, Bad News & other stuff.

There’s good news & bad news for the Rockies; Good news: Helton’s return is looking good, Bad News: Francis’ season is over after informing the club on Thurs that he’ll be undergo arthroscopic surgery on his pitching arm. According to the Colorado Rockies official site, recovery for such surgery is 6 to 12 months but don’t be looking for Francis to pitch. 

Meanwhile Rockies Fan fav Todd Helton believes he’ll be ready to play this season — though not on Opening day and the April 6th game vs the D-Backs is unknown to him and the club. Helton told Rockies beat reporter Thomas Harding, “When I didn’t feel like doing my exercise and I wanted to take a day off and stuff like that, that’s what drove me a little bit. That feeling like you didn’t contribute, that was hard.”  Last year ex-NL West foe in former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson suggested to Todd to see Dr. Robert Watkins in LA.

Carlos Gonzalez

2009 will have a different feel in left field with Matt ‘Everyday is a’ Holiday gone, he too was a Rockies fan favorite and the news of him being traded to the A’s hasn’t been pretty from what I’ve read in baseball forums I’ve visited, I hope this trade was worth losing the best left fielder (IMO) Rockies had since Dante Bichette.

BTW: If you see #5 in the left field that’s not Holiday it’s the new comer Carlos Gonzalez who we got in the A’s trade for Matt along side Hudson Street & Alan Embree, we’ve also got another Gonzo, Luis A. Gonzalez.  I’ve heard alot of

Matt Murton

good things about new Rockie Matt Murton so I can’t wait to see what he can do for us this year.

In all this year will be an interesting–yet hopefully a better year for our boys in purple pinstripes then last year was.

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