I Love Colorado Rockies

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.

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.

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

Uh thanks - two wins in a row! Let's not wait another 19 games for the next two, eh.

http://www.shop.jasongrilli.com/images/1190052580815-223303521.jpeg

Thought it was ironic until I was pointed to the source/shop.

Some dude called Reynolds is pitching for us on the weekend. Anyone know anything?

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"

Thanks - that doesn't seem too encouraging. #2 overall pick and he's crap.

Jeff Francis runs like a girl.

Are out ENTIRE first team injured right now? Jeez :/

Tell me all about these Colorado Rockists?

Where's your Messiah now? Nyaaah!

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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).

Wow we're bad. Is this how it used to be before last, uh, September?

On this day last year, the Rockies were 23-27.

BRING IN GRILLI

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.

Man we're amazing. 13-4 down and we manage to win 18-17. Wonderful.

GLENDON RUSCH

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.

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.

BP claims Rox not moving Holliday or Fuentes, maybe the likes of Torrealba.

The Rockies are 5.5 games out of first place.

At this point last year, they were 6.5 games out.

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

23-16 in first 39 games
23-55 in next 78 games

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

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

Kyle Freeland's home/road split defies logic:

Home: 2.27 ERA, 1.155 WHIP
Away: 3.44 ERA, 1.303 WHIP

first place!

Have passed StL for WC2, and back to half a game behind the Dodgers.

Back in first with an extra game to play, last series vs the Nats.

Dodgers are playing the Giants.

I want a game 163.

maybe holliday will touch the plate this time

and they're in

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

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.’”

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)

Having a GM whose only qualification is having graduated from Harvard is the new market inefficiency.