Tyler Nevin is one of the Rockies’ top prospects, a corner infielder with an advanced offensive approach that he hasn’t been able to fully showcase due to a litany of injuries.
The 2015 supplemental first-round pick tore his hamstring in his first spring training in 2016, costing him all but one at-bat that season. Then a fractured hand in 2017 and a quad strain in 2018 — the first season he’d played 100 games in his professional career — limited him.
But last year, after rehabbing from his quad issue to dominate Class-A Advanced Lancaster with a .