2012 Colorado Rockies season

The Colorado Rockies' 2012 season was the franchise's 20th in Major League Baseball. It involved the Rockies' 18th season of playing their home games at Coors Field.

Offseason

November 30, 2011: Chris Iannetta was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for Tyler Chatwood.
November 30, 2011: Ramón Hernández was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
December 7, 2011: Huston Street was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the San Diego Padres for a player to be named later. The San Diego Padres sent Nick Schmidt to complete the trade.
December 8, 2011: Ian Stewart was traded by the Colorado Rockies with Casey Weathers to the Chicago Cubs for Tyler Colvin and DJ LeMahieu.
December 16, 2011: Michael Cuddyer was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
January 16, 2012: Seth Smith was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Oakland Athletics for Guillermo Moscoso and Josh Outman.
January 18, 2012: Jamie Moyer was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
January 21, 2012: Marco Scutaro was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the Colorado Rockies for Clayton Mortensen.
February 6, 2012: Jeremy Guthrie was traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the Colorado Rockies for Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom.

Regular season

Transactions

June 4, 2012: Jamie Moyer was released by the Colorado Rockies.
June 8, 2012: Jeff Francis was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
June 12, 2012: Esmil Rogers was sold by the Colorado Rockies to the Cleveland Indians.
July 20, 2012: Jeremy Guthrie was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Kansas City Royals for Jonathan Sánchez.
July 27, 2012: Marco Scutaro was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the San Francisco Giants for Charlie Culberson.

Major League Debuts

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Wilin Rosario	117	396	107	.270	28	71
1B	Todd Helton	69	240	57	.238	7	37
2B	Marco Scutaro	95	377	102	.271	4	30
SS	Josh Rutledge	73	277	76	.274	8	37
3B	Jordan Pacheco	132	475	147	.309	5	54
LF	Carlos González	135	518	157	.303	22	85
CF	Dexter Fowler	143	454	136	.300	13	53
RF	Michael Cuddyer	101	358	93	.260	16	58

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	136	420	122	.290	18	72
	111	345	104	.301	9	53
	81	229	68	.297	2	22
	86	225	59	.262	3	12
	52	184	40	.217	5	28
	47	181	52	.287	8	27
	98	174	55	.316	4	15
Charlie Blackmon	42	113	32	.283	2	9
Andrew Brown	46	112	26	.232	5	11
Jason Giambi	60	89	20	.225	1	8
Matt McBride	31	78	16	.205	2	11
Wil Nieves	16	47	14	.298	1	5
Rafael Ortega	2	4	2	.500	0	0
Tommy Field	2	2	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	24	113.0	6	7	5.58	76
	23	98.0	2	9	5.51	64
	22	96.2	2	9	4.93	83
	19	90.2	3	9	6.35	45
	16	84.2	5	8	6.17	74
	14	69.0	3	5	4.43	45
Juan Nicasio	11	58.0	2	3	5.28	54
Jamie Moyer	10	53.2	2	5	5.70	36
Jonathan Sánchez	3	11.1	0	3	9.53	9
Jorge De La Rosa	3	10.2	0	2	9.28	6
Edwar Cabrera	2	5.2	0	2	11.12	5

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	19	64.2	5	6	5.43	41
Josh Outman	27	40.2	1	3	8.19	40

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	60	1	4	31	2.81	57
	80	3	8	3	3.71	69
	75	8	2	0	3.86	83
	71	3	1	0	4.40	51
	63	4	2	1	3.25	54
Adam Ottavino	53	5	1	0	4.56	81
Carlos Torres	31	5	3	0	5.26	42
Guillermo Moscoso	23	3	2	0	6.12	47
Esmil Rogers	23	0	2	0	8.06	29
Edgmer Escalona	22	0	1	0	6.04	21
Will Harris	20	1	1	0	8.15	19
Mike Ekstrom	15	0	0	0	6.32	9
Rob Scahill	6	0	0	0	1.04	4
Zach Putnam	2	0	0	0	0.00	0

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Asheville