The Colorado Rockies Double-A affiliate Hartford Yard Goats will play 52 straight road games to begin the 2016 season.
The Rockies changed their Double-A affiliation from the Texas League’s Tulsa Drillers to the Eastern League’s New Britain Rock Cats during the 2014-15 offseason. At the time, a major positive for the Rockies change was that the Rock Cats would be moving to Hartford and would be getting a brand new stadium in 2016. The soon to be opened home of the Yard Goats (Dunkin’ Donuts Park) will cost over $50 million and is a part the larger $400 million redevelopment plan called Downtown North (DoNo) in Hartford, CT.