Flash back to 1993.
The Colorado Rockies are brand new.
They begin playing for a baseball-starved city in a football stadium that crammed in 80,227 fans for the inaugural home opener. At the end of that first
season, the Rockies set an overall MLB season attendance record with 4,483,350 fans at Mile High Stadium. The Rockies averaged 55,350 fans per game in 1993, much more than the current capacity of Coors Field (46,897).
Passing the 4 million mark is an amazing achievement for any team, and the Rockies did it in their first season, proving the organization had a formidable fanbase.
Flash forward to today, and the Dodgers hit the 4-million mark in 2025 — becoming the first MLB team to do so since the 2008 Yankees. With Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and countless other stars — on top of being the defending World Series Champions — the Dodgers (93-69 and 52-29 at home) drew 4,012,470 fans in Los Angeles this year during the regular season.
That made for an average of 49,537 fans at Dodger Stadium, and L.A. also led the Majors in road attendance at 35,703. L.A. sold out 25 games and never hit below 40,000 at a game. It also doesn’t hurt that Dodger Stadium has an MLB-high capacity of 56,000 people.
Then there are the 2025 Rockies.
The Rockies only won 26.5% of their games in 2025 on their way to losing a franchise-worst 119 games. They won 30.9% of their contests at Coors Field, putting up victories just 25 times for the home crowd out of 81 attempts.
And, yet, the Rockies still managed to finish 16th in the MLB total attendance standings with 2,404,613 total fans for a total of 30,058 per game. For anyone who attended those games, especially against teams like the Dodgers and Cubs, we know a lot of those fans weren’t cheering for the purple team.
But still, to only drop to the middle of the pack in attendance totals, falling from No. 15 to No. 16 between 2024 and 2025, is disappointing to say the least. Colorado has three straight 100-loss seasons, in addition to losing 18 more games in 2025 than they did in 2024. The Rockies still only dropped in attendance by an average of 1,302 fans per game. This kind of losing doesn’t deserve the attendance dollars the Rockies get.
At least Dick Monfort’s son, Walker, acknowledged the fans earlier this year.
“One of the things, during times like this, and it doesn’t get realized as well as it could, is the passion that our fanbase has,” Walker Monfort told the Denver Post in June after being promoted to executive vice president. “Even though there are negatives, there are still people who are passionately following our baseball team. And we value that.”
The Rockies most attended game — at 48,064 — came on a fireworks night on the 4th of July when the Rockies, the worst team in baseball, hosted the White Sox, the second-worst team in baseball. The Rockies had six games that drew at least 47,000 fans, and all either featured the Home Opener, fireworks, the Cubs or the Yankees.
The lowest attendance figures of the season came on weekdays in early April when the Rockies hosted the Milwaukee Brewers. Even then 18,593 and 18,657 people still came. That’s more than the Miami Marlins (14,281) and Chicago White Sox (18,072), as well as the two MLB teams playing in minor league stadiums (A’s at 9,487 and Rays at 9,713), averaged per game all season.
The White Sox, during their 41-win campaign of 2024 for the worst in the modern era, drew 1,380,733 fans, ranking No. 27. Even in their improved 2025 season when they notched 60 wins, they stayed at No. 27 with a slight increase of 1,405,702 fans. The Rockies had more fans than a playoff-clinching Cleveland, which finished No. 21 at 2,051,360. They finished just under 9,000 fans behind another postseason team in Detroit.
The Cardinals had a winning record in 2024 (83-79), but dropped to 78-84 in 2025. They still saw 2,250,007 fans come to Busch Stadium for an average of 27,778 per game this season. However, that represented a decline of 7,754 fans per game in St. Louis.
The Cardinals were significantly better than the Rockies this year, but still drew fewer fans as the team lost five fewer games than it did in 2024. Cardinals fans expect to win and show up less often if the team isn’t meeting their expectations. The change is drastic.
While Colorado’s attendance is on a downward trajectory, it’s not as sharp, and, therefore, doesn’t send as serious a message to the front office. On the other hand, the decline over time is hard to ignore.
Overall, attendance was up in baseball as 71,409,421 fans attended games, eclipsing the 70-million mark three seasons in a row, which hadn’t happened in eight years (2015-17). As MLB.com’s Jared Greenspan said, “This is also the first time MLB has had three straight years of attendance growth since 2005-07.”
As baseball is doing better, the Rockies are doing worse. With changes coming to the front office with the resignations or retirements of general manager Bill Schmidt, vice president and assistant general manager of baseball operations Zack Rosenthal and president and chief operating officer Greg Feasel, along with Bud Black and other coaches being fired in May, changes are finally coming to Coors Field.
Are the moves enough to bring more fans back in 2026 or will the new front office need to deliver a better product before the Rockies climb back to the top tier of MLB’s attendance charts?
Only time will tell.
Arizona Fall League
Mesa Solar Sox 10, Salt River Rafters 9
Mesa scored five runs in the top of the ninth to pull off a comeback win, and the Rafters fell to 2-1 on Thursday. Salt River out-hit the Solar Sox 14-8. Rockies prospect Austin Smith had a rough appearance, entering the game in the ninth inning and giving up five runs on five hits with two walks. He took the loss and a blown save. Shortstop Braylen Wimmer (No. 38 PuRP) hit an RBI single and scored a run.
Savannah Bananas returning to Coors Field for two more dates in 2026 | Denver Post ($)
After selling out two games at Coors Field in 2025, the fun is coming back in 2026 as the Savannah Bananas will be back in Denver on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15.
How Blue Jays’ front office built a winner | MLB.com
Since the Rockies are hiring and rebuilding, it seems like they might want to look this over. From big spending to small additions that became key pieces, the Blue Jays made a lot of good choices to get where they are right now: headed to the ALCS after knocking out the New York Yankees.
Could This Rising Rockies Star Become the Breakout Player This Franchise Needs? | SI.com
Prospect center fielder and second baseman Roldy Brito is looking promising. The Rockies signed Brito out of the Dominican Republic and he performed well in the Dominican Summer League in 2024. He got his first chance in Single-A in 2025 and made it count.
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