Rockies call another prospect up to the big leagues

The Colorado Rockies need this season to be about young players.

Having already called up Chase Dollander and Zac Veen in the last 10 days, the club added Adael Amador to that list, bringing him up from AAA Albuquerque on Sunday as a replacement for Tyler Freeman, who landed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to April 11 due to a strain of the left oblique muscle.

This will be Amador’s second look at the major-league level. He was up with the Rockies last June. He logged a .174/.194/.200 line in 36 plate appearances over 10 games before going back to AA Hartford.

Amador’s work in AA last season was much stronger in the second half of the season than the first half; he improved his OPS from .666 in the first half of the season to .761 and saw his batting average spike from .194 to .258.

Amador spent most of this year’s spring training in major-league camp and got off to a solid start in AAA, posting a .275/.408/.450 line in 49 plate appearances over 10 games to start the year.

He’ll be in the lineup Sunday at second base, batting ninth. Kyle Farmer, who has also seen work at second base this season and is the Rockies’ hottest batter at the present time — and has accounted for five of their seven hits in the last two games — will bat third in the series finale at San Diego.

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