Maddy Dickens resides in Loveland, Colorado. She grew up with two older brothers, where their lives revolved around sports. She earned a master's degree in business management from Tarleton State University while simultaneously playing basketball and competing in rodeo at the collegiate level. She successfully parlayed a reserve national championship into a professional rodeo career and now stays involved in upper-level athletics by writing for On SI on several different MLB teams' pages, along with some NCAA sites.
It wasn't often in 2025 that there was positive statements to be made about the Rockies. But they just took another series victory in a sweeper and are inching closer to .500.
It is hard to imagine a Rockies ballclub over .500, but there have been ample opportunities for this team to score a run. A pair of faces are struggling at the plate and Colorado cannot afford that.
It is becoming much more difficult for the Rockies front office to defend the decision to keep Charlie Condon in the minors as Condon is thriving and players on the current roster are not.
Colorado is definitely a team to watch right now which is a very weird phrase to even type, but it is true. They just swept the Astros and are now .500.