I don't know if we will ever see another Derek Jeter in baseball. That brand of grace and elegance doesn't come along often.
But we do have a wave of some slick young shortstops coming up who are trying to take the banner.
One of those...
I thought Jeff Hoffman would be up in Colorado at some point this season. I really thought he would last until June in AAA, but now? I'm not so sure.
Rockies blog sites are calling for the Shaker High School graduate to be brought up after another sterling performance this weekend:
He got a no decision in a 7-inning gem for Albuquerque on Sunday...
Maple Hill graduate Jaime Schultz may have dominated yesterday with a 12-strikeout performance for the AAA Durham Bulls, but that doesn't mean that fellow Capital Region native Jeff Hoffman would be outdone in his outing for the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes...
Sources close to the situation have indicated to me that Shaker High grad Jeff Hoffman will be starting the season in AAA Albuquerque for the Colorado Rockies.
The Latham native is the No. 5 prospect in the Rockies organization, according to MLB...
Shaker graduate Jeff Hoffman is really rolling now in AA. Despite being traded by the Blue Jays to the Rockies in the Troy Tulowitzki-Jose Reyes deal, the prime prospect is locked in.
He went five innings last night for the New Britain Rock Cats against the Trenton Thunder, surrendering just one run on three hits...
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Harvey pitched four-hit ball for eight innings, Ruben Tejada had a go-ahead single in the sixth and the New York Mets beat the Colorado Rockies for the eighth straight time at Citi Field, 4-0 on Tuesday night.
Juan Lagares had a two-run double in the eighth to help the Mets improve to 40-18 at home, matching last season's win total when they lost 41 at Citi Field...
The Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals yesterday by a score of 6-4.
Why should you care about this? Two reasons.
1. The Nationals lost, which is good for the Mets. New York holds a 1.5 game lead over Washington in the NL East...
Less than a week after being the centerpiece in the blockbuster Blue Jays-Rockies trade, Jeff Hoffman earned a no-decision in his first start as a member of the Rockies organization.
Hoffman went with Jose Reyes and other prospects from the Blue Jays to the Rockies for Troy Tulowitzki and LaTroy Hawkins...
Yesterday, we reported heavily on the trade of Shaker High School graduate Jeff Hoffman from the Blue Jays to the Rockies.
Hoffman was traded, along with Jose Reyes and two other prospects, to Colorado for all-star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki...