Chase Dollander, the ninth overall pick in the 2023 draft out of the University of Tennessee, is the buzz of Rockies spring training.

Chase Dollander had just given up his first home run during an MLB spring training game, and now the Colorado Rockies top pitching prospect had to face veteran third baseman Matt Chapman, coming off a season where he paced the San Francisco Giants in bWAR with 7.

Chase Dollander's not-long-ago childhood flashed before him when he learned that his Rockies Cactus League debut on Monday would be against the Giants and Justin Verlander. “Somebody told me he debuted in 2005 -- I was \[3\] years old at the time,

A first-inning sequence spoke volumes about Chase Dollander’s impressive and much-anticipated Cactus League debut.

Monday morning inside the Colorado Rockies complex at Salt River Fields, Rockies manager Bud Black looked into his proverbial crystal ball and saw into the future with