Renee Dechert doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t watch baseball. She started with the Cincinnati Reds “Big Red Machine” before moving through a number of teams largely based on access in the before-streaming era (e.g., the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago White Sox, and the Texas Rangers).
When working on her doctorate at Texas A&M, she became an avid fan of college baseball, spending afternoons out at Olson Field grading papers and eating an occasional hot dog.
In 1993, however, when Colorado finally got a team, she found a place to ground her MLB fandom and has been following the Colorado Rockies since.
Her evolution as a fan took another step in 2017 when she began contributing to Purple Row as a features writer. Her focus soon expanded into running social media for the team and eventually writing analysis.
She received a press credential in 2022 and began interviewing Rockies players and coaches in addition to working out of the press box.
Her work expanded into running social 2024 when she began interviewing players in the visitors’ clubhouse at Coors Field in an interview series for Pitcher List.
Renee also has a newsletter, Rockies Pitch, which provides her with an additional platform for Rockies analysis.
Renee has a doctorate and works as a professor of English at a community college in Wyoming. During her career, Renee’s writing interests have been varied: articles on Americana music; book and music reviews; articles on television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Peaky Blinders, and generally, just whatever is interesting.
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