Garrett Atkins by trade is a first baseman. By the end of his career he would earn a spot in the top-five third basemen in Colorado Rockies history.
That transition wasn’t always easy for Atkins who was drafted in the fifth round in 2000 out of UCLA where he played mostly first base but did play some time at third. Chase Utley and Atkins played on the same team in college. The inseparable friends in college met again in the majors in the 2007 NLDS.
Atkins was the first three-time All American at UCLA and he had a .