I Love Colorado Rockies

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.