The Colorado Rockies have endured one of baseball’s most brutal seasons. A 43-119 record in 2025—the third-worst season in the modern era, with a -424 run differential and 50 games out of first place.
During Rockies Fest over the weekend, the organization made a defiant choice: immortalize the two players who represent everything the Rockies should be, according to MLB.com’s Manny Randhawa.
Hall of Famers Larry Walker and Todd Helton will get statues at Coors Field this season. Not as nostalgia. As a reminder.
“We’re capturing our history,” Rockies’ executive vice president Walker Monfort explained. “We want to explain our history to future generations who didn’t have a chance to see [Walker and Helton] play.”
Walker’s bronze figure debuts Aug. 23 before facing the Guardians. Helton’s arrives Sept. 19 when the Mariners visit.
MLB Hall of Fame Legends Todd Helton, Larry Walker to be Permanently Honored at Coors Field
The Rockies need reminding of who they are. Walker embodied it.
Before Helton owned mostly every Colorado record, Walker had the harder mission: convincing voters that a Canadian outfielder deserved baseball immortality while wearing an altitude jersey.
Walker didn’t just convince them. He overwhelmed them.
In 2020, the outfielder became Colorado’s first Hall of Famer, securing 76.6 percent on his tenth and final ballot. He remains the lone Canadian position player in Cooperstown.
Across his Colorado decade (1995-2004), Walker collected four All-Star nods, five Gold Gloves, and three batting crowns. His 1997 MVP campaign set the franchise standard.
That season: .366/.452/.720 slash line, 49 home runs, 130 RBIs, 1.172 OPS leading baseball. His 9.8 WAR topped all position players. The defining detail? Walker hit 29 home runs on the road compared to just 20 at altitude, dismantling the Coors Field narrative once and for all.
Walker anchored the legendary Blake Street Bombers with Dante Bichette, Ellis Burks, Vinny Castilla, and Andrés Galarraga.
Career totals: .313/.400/.565 slash line (141 OPS+), 383 home runs, 230 stolen bases, three batting titles, seven Gold Gloves.
“When that phone call comes and says we’re going to put a statue outside of the ballpark that’s going to be there forever … it’s out of this world,” Walker said.
Todd Helton Defined Rockies Loyalty
While other stars fled Colorado for greener pastures, Helton stayed. He believed in this franchise.
All 17 seasons (1997-2013) in a Rockies uniform. Never wavering. Never looking elsewhere. In 2024, Colorado got its reward—Helton’s Cooperstown call with 79.7 percent.
Five All-Star appearances. Three Gold Gloves. Every significant offensive record in team history: 2,519 hits, 369 home runs, 592 doubles, 1,406 RBIs.
His 2000 season transcended statistics: .372/.463/.698 slash line, 42 home runs, 147 RBIs, 1.162 OPS leading baseball. He led the NL in hits, doubles, total bases (405) and RBIs. His 163 OPS+ was extraordinary.
He finished fifth in MVP voting. But numbers never captured Helton’s true legacy. One moment did.
October 15, 2007. NLCS Game 4. Final out lands in Helton’s glove at first base. Fists thrust skyward. Foot planted on the bag. Colorado sweeps Arizona for its only pennant—the one shining moment in franchise history.
That moment is becoming eternal bronze.
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