Colorado Rockies Announce 2025 Minor League Award Winners

SCOTTSDALE - The Colorado Rockies announced today that infielder/outfielder Roldy Brito has been named the 2025 Doug Million Minor League Player of the Year. Additionally, left-handed pitcher Konner Eaton has been named the Rockies’ Rick Matthews Minor League Pitcher of the Year, while Physical Performance Manager Trevor Swartz has been named the winner of the P.J. Carey Player Development Award.

Brito, 18, was named the Arizona Complex League Most Valuable Player in 2025, an ACL Post-Season All-Star and a Baseball America Rookie All-Star in his first appearance at the ACL level. The Bonao, D.R., native slashed .368/.445/.555 with 46 runs, 13 doubles, six triples, three home runs, 21 RBI and 22 stolen bases in 51 games for the ACL Rockies while ranking among ACL players in batting average (1st), OPS (2nd, 1.000), hits (2nd, 67), OBP (2nd), triples (T-2nd), slugging percentage (3rd), total bases (3rd, 101), stolen bases (3rd), runs (4th) and extra-base hits (T-6th, 22). Brito finished the season with Single-A Fresno and hit .375/.442/.463 with 26 runs, nine extra-base hits, 17 RBI and 13 stolen bases in 33 games. The Rockies No. 5 prospect according to Baseball America was originally signed as a non-drafted international free agent on Jan. 15, 2024.

Eaton, 23, recorded 149 strikeouts in 2025, the most by a Rockies Minor League pitcher and tied for 18th-most among all Minor League pitchers. In 27 starts between High-A Spokane and Double-A Hartford, he went 6-9 with a 3.79 ERA (140.0 IP, 59 ER) to go along with his 140 strikeouts while holding opponents to a .237 batting average (124-for-524). The Hopewell, Va., native ranked among all Rockies Minor Leaguers (min. 100 IP) in strikeouts per nine (9.58, 1st), strikeouts per walks (2.87, 2nd) and WHIP (1.26, T-2nd).

Swartz joined the Rockies in January of 2014 as a physical performance coach before being named physical performance manager in 2016. Swartz works closely with all strength and performance coaches throughout the Rockies system, using data-driven training plans and performance sciences to optimize player performance, strength and recovery throughout the season.

The Doug Million Award has been awarded annually to the most outstanding Minor League player in the Rockies system since 1992. In 1998, the award was named after Doug Million, the Rockies’ first-round draft pick in the 1994 First-Year Player Draft, who passed away tragically in 1997 from a severe asthma attack. Past winners include Todd Helton (1997), Brad Hawpe (2002), Jeff Francis (2004) and Hunter Goodman (2022).

The Rick Matthews Award, created in 2024, is awarded to Colorado’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year. An original Rockie, Mathews has served in numerous roles for nearly two decades. He joined the Rockies organization during the summer of 1992 as the pitching coach at Mesa of the Arizona Rookie League before serving as the Major League bullpen coach for the majority of Colorado’s 1993 inaugural season and for the 1995 campaign. Matthews resumed his role as bullpen coach from 2003-08 after spending the previous seven years as Colorado’s roving pitching coordinator. Matthews currently serves as special assistant in Rockies player development.

The P.J. Carey Player Development Award is given to a top player development staff member in the Rockies organization in honor of the beloved longtime Rockies coach, who passed away in 2012. Carey spent 13 of his 22-season Minor League managing career at the helm of the Rockies’ Rookie and Single-A teams and was named Manager of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2005. He also served as the Rockies’ bullpen coach in 1997.