Brad Hawpe News

Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige posts Woody's Mailbag on Thursdays at DenverPost.com. The next installment is slated for Dec.

Outfielder Carlos Gonzalez is the key to the three-player trade for the Rockies.

Don't you hate when your on Facebook, and your friend from the Bay Area has the status of: Matt Holliday!!! That's how I found out about this deal moments ago.

With the first overall pick in the 2009 Draft... Positive Hype selects... David Wright , 3B IDK.

Troy Tulowitzki's 2007 season had us all convinced that this guy was a natural, that he was going to start stringing together 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons sometime in the near future.

If someone could just convince Brad Hawpe that the season actually started at the beginning of March, the numbers that he could put up in the regular season would be astronomical.

Looking back, the failed attempt to sign Matt Holliday to a contract extension during spring training was the beginning of the Rockies' unraveling this season.

Rockies right fielder Brad Hawpe's key to success is thinking in small chunks. "Personally, what I do is try to focus on what I did that day," Hawpe said.

The season with perhaps the highest expectations in Rockies history instead ended with the same record as the 2003 Rockies, that squad that gave 111 starts at third base to Chris Stynes, he of the .734 career ...

The Rockies are left to wonder how the same guys who made the World Series last year could spend almost all of the 2008 season below .500. Of course injuries were a factor this year.

If the Rockies were to do a case study on how the 2008 season went so wrong, Sunday's game might be Exhibit A. They never gave themselves a chance.

RHP Aaron Cook has called it a season. Meanwhile, the Rockies have six more games to play, and manager Clint Hurdle went iwth a left-handed look against RHP Tim Lincecum of San Francisco on Tuesday.

San Francisco Giants' Tim Lincecum reacts after walking Brad Hawpe to load the bases in the first inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept.

We continue our look at the Rockies' future with a look at the outfield. Things, they are a-changin'. Matt Holliday is due to become a free agent after the 2009 season, and with Matt's big payday coming up, ...

SS Troy Tulowitzki is settling back into the No. 2 spot in the order. That has prompted Clint Barmes to be dropped to eighth.

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The Colorado Rockies' Brad Hawpe, left, congratulates Chris Iannetta as he crosses home plate after hitting a grand slam against the San Diego Padres during the sixth inning of the Rockies' 10-3 victory in ...

Dodgers left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo, in general a man of few words anyway, didn't mince them when he got a visit from manager Joe Torre one batter into the bottom of the 10th inning Sunday.

Rockies scouts, executives and coaches gathered at the team hotel for organizational meetings Tuesday.

Rockies right fielder Brad Hawpe is smart. He's also courteous. So on Thursday night, he turned off his mind to facts that do him no good to face and politely deflected a question he didn't want to field.