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