And the Rockies could be paying him a service time adjusted league minimum, but they chose not too. Ohwell!
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 2 May 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
the dude is a total coors mirage anyway imo, probably closer to adam everett at sea level than cal ripken jr
― omar little, Friday, 2 May 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ give him more than a year and a month before tainting him as nu-Barmes
― David R., Friday, 2 May 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
easy y'all, i believe TT led MLB in defensive win shares in 2007.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Not a single Rockies hata on the hata thread but everyone's got it in for Tulo? I'm gutted BUT he had been having a mare so far this season. What can you do.
― Mark C, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
He can be kind of a jerk.
Tulo from the NLCS last year at Justin Upton upon being hit by Jeff Francis:
"Why would we hit you?" Tulowitzki barked. "You're a .200 hitter! We want you in the box! Shut up and go to the bag!"
Poetically, Tulo got plunked in the April 2008 series in AZ, to similar effect.
― felicity, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Rockies,
Last year was brilliant, I'm really grateful, but would you mind getting your shit together and make something of this season?
Thanks and lots of love, Mark
― Mark C, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh thanks - two wins in a row! Let's not wait another 19 games for the next two, eh.
― Mark C, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.shop.jasongrilli.com/images/1190052580815-223303521.jpeg
Thought it was ironic until I was pointed to the source/shop.
― Andy K, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Some dude called Reynolds is pitching for us on the weekend. Anyone know anything?
― Mark C, Friday, 9 May 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
from BP:
"...2006 overall #2 draft pick Greg Reynolds, who's put up a 4.86 ERA with none-too-stellar peripherals at Colorado Springs"
― j.q higgins, Friday, 9 May 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks - that doesn't seem too encouraging. #2 overall pick and he's crap.
― Mark C, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff Francis runs like a girl.
― mattbot, Saturday, 24 May 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Are out ENTIRE first team injured right now? Jeez :/
― Mark C, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell me all about these Colorado Rockists?
― Mordy, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's your Messiah now? Nyaaah!
http://www.geocities.com/olandsguy2000/Images/wiggum.gif
― Leee, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I only managed to watch the first inning of last night's game and even a complete clueless noob like me knew that De La Rosa was going to get thumped. How embarrassing for all concerned (apart from Ryan Spilborghs).
― Mark C, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow we're bad. Is this how it used to be before last, uh, September?
― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
On this day last year, the Rockies were 23-27.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
BRING IN GRILLI
― Andy K, Friday, 27 June 2008 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Man we're bad. I couldn't sleep between 3am and 6am last night and watched the game, and we went from leading 8-3 at the top of the 6th (I think?) to losing 15-8. Hopeless.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Man we're amazing. 13-4 down and we manage to win 18-17. Wonderful.
― Mark C, Saturday, 5 July 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
GLENDON RUSCH
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
As Dr M mentioned elsewhere, they are six games back.
At this point last year, they were 4.5 games back, behind two teams that were 10 games over .500 and one that was seven games over.
― Andy K, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
8 out of the last 10 won - shame we couldn't do it last night vs them Pirates. Holliday doesn't seem too unsettled by the speculation as to his future. I'm just nervous that the rotation is going to spazz out again - I'd never even heard of the dude who pitched for us last night.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
BP claims Rox not moving Holliday or Fuentes, maybe the likes of Torrealba.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rockies are 5.5 games out of first place.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
At this point last year, they were 6.5 games out.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
owner melting down
http://www.purplerow.com/2014/7/10/5889541/dick-monfort-rockies-owner-emails-denver-doesnt-deserve-team
http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_26132113/rockies-owner-dick-monfort-issues-formal-apology-fans-offended
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
23-16 in first 39 games 23-55 in next 78 games
― Andy K, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/7/2/17524464/colorado-rockies-jon-gray-minor-leagues-sabermetric-cipher
a welcome examination of jon gray, who seems to strike out 11 guys and give up 8 runs in every game he has pitched this season
― na (NA), Monday, 2 July 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
two articles about him on fangraphs today too. he got sent down to aaa despite being the rockies' opening day starter and probably their best pitcher
― na (NA), Monday, 2 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Kyle Freeland's home/road split defies logic:
Home: 2.27 ERA, 1.155 WHIPAway: 3.44 ERA, 1.303 WHIP
― clemenza, Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
first place!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Have passed StL for WC2, and back to half a game behind the Dodgers.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Back in first with an extra game to play, last series vs the Nats.
Dodgers are playing the Giants.
I want a game 163.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
maybe holliday will touch the plate this time
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
and they're in
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 September 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
Jeff Bridich's MLB contract signings in free agency have been almost unfathomably incompetent. They make Battlefield: Earth and Pluto Nash look like investment triumphs by comparison. pic.twitter.com/1PtIJivocp— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) May 30, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
A case in point occurred last season, when the team used baseball operations personnel to replace furloughed part-time clubhouse attendants, striking an unsettling chord with a number of those who were required to perform double duty…The use of front-office staffers as “clubbies,” part of the organization-wide effort to maximize an operation team officials already consider lean by major-league standards, lasted for the 30 home games during the 2020 regular season. Members of the analytics and player-development staffs might work their normal jobs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then assist in the clubhouse from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m.“I’d be holding a pile of dirty jerseys and a coach would come up to me, ‘Can I get this data for this pitcher?’ (or) something like that,” one former member of the baseball operations department said. “I’d be just like, ‘I can’t do that right now.’”
“I’d be holding a pile of dirty jerseys and a coach would come up to me, ‘Can I get this data for this pitcher?’ (or) something like that,” one former member of the baseball operations department said. “I’d be just like, ‘I can’t do that right now.’”
https://theathletic.com/2467223/2021/03/22/communication-failures-poor-decisions-and-messy-breakups-how-it-all-went-wrong-for-the-colorado-rockies
https://defector.com/the-rockies-are-the-old-weird-kind-of-bad
(both paywalled)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
Having a GM whose only qualification is having graduated from Harvard is the new market inefficiency.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link