{"id":145799,"date":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ezequiel-tovar-s-arrival-ushers-in-a-new-era-and-some-renewed-hope-for-the-rockies"},"modified":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T00:30:00","slug":"ezequiel-tovar-s-arrival-ushers-in-a-new-era-and-some-renewed-hope-for-the-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ezequiel-tovar-s-arrival-ushers-in-a-new-era-and-some-renewed-hope-for-the-rockies","title":{"rendered":"Ezequiel Tovar&#8217;s arrival ushers in a new era, and some renewed hope for the Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just promoted form the minor league, Colorado Rockies shortstop Esquiel Tovar looks on from the dugout in the second inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski) David ZalubowskiDENVER &#8212; There are times when baseball officials just know. They spend hours upon hours watching mundane baseball games So every once in a while, when a kid comes around who just has it, their ears perk up and their eyes glimmer with hope. And when everyone &#8212; from international scouts to Double-A managers &#8212; is saying that Ezequiel Tovar has that &#8220;it&#8221; factor, it&#8217;s as sure of a sign as they come that he&#8217;s going to make it. And now, they&#8217;ll get to see if their intuitions were right. Tovar was promoted on Thursday, and will be the youngest position player in franchise history to make his debut when he gets in a game. On paper, it&#8217;s just another late-September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &#8212; There are times when baseball officials just know. They spend hours upon hours watching mundane baseball games So every once in a while, when a kid comes around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-145799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}