Ryan Spilborghs debuted on July 16, 2005 went 2-4 and didn’t play another major league game that year. The debut doesn’t seem fitting for one of the most animated players to ever wear a Colorado Rockies uniform.
Spilborghs was and is everything a fan loves about a player. He has a personality and an underdog quality that make it impossible not to root for him. But that one game debut is part of that underdog story. Drafted in the seventh round in 2002, in 2005 he played most of the year in Colorado Springs with the AAA Sky Sox.