With last year’s induction of Larry Walker to the baseball Hall of Fame, the Rockies finally broke through giving the club representation at Cooperstown. Todd Helton, although unlikely to make it this year, seems to have made a big enough leap in voting to follow in Walker’s footsteps at some point in the next several years (more on that later.) The question then becomes, who would be the third Rockie to join MLB’s all-time greats?
While Cargo’s storied career certainly puts him in the conversation, I’m afraid the Coors Field effect would weigh him down enough to keep him out of the Hall. With no other former Rockies possessing a strong enough case to seriously warrant consideration, we’re left with current Rockies and figuring out whether or not they’re on a Cooperstown trajectory.