Your team needs to get more good players. It actually doesn’t matter which club you root for in MLB – or in any sport, really – because the statement remains just as true. It sure as hell doesn’t need to be pointed out to Colorado Rockies fans after an abysmal 2020 campaign. That statement, taken by itself though, isn’t particularly…
DENVER – When a season is filled with silver linings, that usually means that it was mostly comprised of one enormous mushroom cloud of bad baseball. And that is certainly true of the Colorado Rockies 2019 campaign. Both sides. There are a ton of positives to take away from this last place team. Plenty of young players emerged as…...
You can’t win baseball games if you don’t score runs. I’m pretty sure I read that someplace. The Colorado Rockies celebrated a brief respite from losing on Friday night by recording just three hits and failing to score in their second game against the San Diego Padres on Saturday. The 3-0 loss wasted a second straight quality outing from starting…...
Editor’s Note: Above is an audio story, designed to give BSN Denver subscribers the option to listen to this story if they don’t have time to stop and read it in its entirety. We would love to know what you think about it in the comments. Enjoy! Since limping out of the gate in 2019 with a record of 3-12,…...
Editor’s Note: Above is an audio story, designed to give BSN Denver subscribers the option to listen to this story if they don’t have time to stop and read it in its entirety. We would love to know what you think about it in the comments. Enjoy! In one of my first forays into the world of analytic baseball writing,…...
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman dissects the Colorado Rockies 9-6 win over the San Diego Padres in the first of a four-game set. The offense remains in a good groove, especially Charlie Blackmon, and Jon Gray gave us a perfect example of why statistics will only ever tell a part of the story....
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(Let us know how you liked this new audio format in the comment section) There is a debate among those who follow the Los Angeles Dodgers closely about whether or not a strategy they employed a year ago was both a blessing and their undoing. As the season wore on and their seemingly bottomless resources led to a stockpiling of…
DENVER – For well over a hundred years, hitting a baseball has been considered the most difficult thing to do in all of professional sports. And it ain’t gettin’ any easier. The information age brought on by the invention of the internet has spawned a whole new era in Major League Baseball. This, in and of itself, isn’t entirely surprising.…...
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman dives into the series against the Pittsburgh Pirates and the unusual dynamic that has emerged whereby the Rockies are actually playing at a pace that should get them right back in the hunt, but it really doesn’t feel like it....
Over the years, the Colorado Rockies, like every baseball team, have employed some questionable strategies. Even in the last two years as the team has soared to back to back postseason appearances, there have been heated debates about the makeup and use of the roster. Chief among these arguments have been whether or not the team is aggressive enough on…...
DENVER – For the second straight game, the Colorado Rockies offense put up 12 runs against a divisional opponent in an impressive display of execution up and down the lineup. This time, though, the pitching also held up their end of the bargain, leaving out th dramatics found in the series finale against the Giants. Starter German Marquez was good…...
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman breaks down the 7-5 victory over the Washington Nationals in the series opener and Nolan Arenado’s big night. Plus, more thoughts on what to do with the backend of the rotation and why Colorado might keep it going offensively....
DENVER – The Colorado Rockies have never come into a season with the kind of expectations they – and just about everyone else – placed on themselves coming into the 2019 season. This is one of the many reasons why an eight-game losing streak, more or less out of the gate, became so magnified outside the clubhouse. Inside of it,…...
On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons break down the second game of the series against the Los Angeles Dodgers that saw the Rockies lose 7-2. What is David Dahl doing that the rest of the lineup isn’t? Plus, is the MLB debut of Josh Fuentes more than just a great story?...
DENVER – Sometimes a baseball season is 162 games. Sometimes, it’s just one. And then there are those times when after playing 162 games and then one more… and then one more… your season becomes defined by a three-game sample size in which you were handily swept by the Milwaukee Brewers in a very public display of offensive futility. Y’know,…
Las Vegas – While the collective Colorado Rockies fanbase has been anticipating some news regarding a big bat that could be acquired to help address the offensive woes of a season ago, the club made a move that may end up being just as important as any roster change. The hiring of new hitting coach Dave Magadan is intriguing on a…...
Las Vegas – It can be a tough balance for any professional sports team between having faith in the guys already on your roster versus pursuing every possible addition or change that can make you better. The Colorado Rockies organization find themselves at a fork in the road in this regard. They simply will not be the same team in…...
In 2017, the youthful and exuberant Houston Astros took MLB by storm, slamming their way through the Postseason and downing the Los Angeles Dodgers in an exciting and energizing World Series. Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa and Jose Altuve electrified a lineup, baseball team and city and created baseball’s newest dynasty. In 2018, a Colorado Rockies team whose core was centered…...
DENVER – The Colorado Rockies found themselves playing in the National League Division Series against the Milwaukee Brewers thanks largely to their pitching and defense but it turned out that could only take them so far. An offense that struggled for much of the season, with a few respites featuring a handful of explosive outputs, was dominated by the Brewers,…...
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