1999 Colorado Rockies season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Colorado Rockies
season = 1999
misc =

current league = National League
y1 = 1993
division = Western Division
y2 = 1993
Uniform
ballpark = Coors Field
y4 = 1995
city = Denver, Colorado
y5 = 1993
owners = Jerry McMorris
managers = Jim Leyland
television = KWGN-TV
Fox Sports Rocky Mountain
(George Frazier, Dave Armstrong)
radio = KOA (AM)
(Wayne Hagin, Jeff Kingery)
KCUV
(Antonio Guevara)|The Colorado Rockies' 1999 season was the seventh overall for the team. Jim Leyland debuted as the Rockies' new manager, although, he resigned following the end of the season. Colorado finished with a record of 72-90, last in the National League West.

Offseason

*December 17, 1998: Kirt Manwaring was signed as a Free Agent with the Colorado Rockies. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/manwaki01.shtml]

Regular season

eason standings

Notable transactions

* July 31, 1999: Brian McRae, Rigo Beltrán and Thomas Johnson (minors) were traded by the New York Mets to the Colorado Rockies for Darryl Hamilton and Chuck McElroy. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcraebr01.shtml Brian McRae Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
* August 9, 1999: McRae was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Toronto Blue Jays for a player to be named later. On August 23, 1999, the Blue Jays sent Pat Lynch (minors) as the "player to be named later" to the Colorado Rockies to complete the trade. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcraebr01.shtml Brian McRae Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Roster

tarting pitchers

Notes

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico - marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada. [ [http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/events/opening_day.jsp?content=od_facts The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Events: Opening Day ] ] [ [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn ESPN - Baseball Tonight Clubhouse: Weekend preview - MLB ] ] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6D81139F936A35757C0A96F958260 BASEBALL; Bichette and Castilla Spark Rockies in Opener in Mexico - New York Times ] ] Colorado beat San Diego, 8-2, in front of a crowd of 27,104 people.

References

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/1999.shtml 1999 Rockies]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1999&t=COL 1999 Colorado Rockies team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]