Shelly Bolt, Special to The Denver Post)
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Frick and Frack, the two crackerjack pitching prospects the Rockies let loose here Sunday, chirped at each other for a week before they finally faced players in another uniform color.
Jeff Hoffman and Kyle Freeland, drafted back-to-back in 2014, can't get rid of each other. The Rockies needed to trade Troy Tulowitzki to Toronto to snag Hoffman. And Freeland, the former standout at Denver's Thomas Jefferson High School, was waiting. Their lockers sit in the same corner of the Colorado clubhouse.
They're nipping at each other's spikes trying to earn a shot to leave camp with the major-league team.