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Name: Travis Lay
Date registered: July 6, 2011
URL: http://www.blakestreetbulletin.com

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Cuddy v Beltran — May 11, 2013
Hate the Dodgers? Sure. Hate Matt Kemp? Nope. — May 8, 2013
Chris who?! Some WAR stats — May 6, 2013
Chris who? — April 30, 2013
“Crafty” Rockies pitchers toss BP in the cold — April 24, 2013

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May 11

Cuddy v Beltran

Categories:

Michael Cuddyer, Rockies

by Travis Lay

It's hard not to like Cuddy as a fan. He is great with the fans and hustles his butt off in the field and on the bases. But would Beltran have been better for the team?

Prior to the 2012 season the Colorado Rockies were looking for an outfielder to replace the Seth Smith/Ryan Spilborghs combo in right field. The best player available was Carlos Beltran who had just made a big impact with the San Francisco Giants after being traded mid-season from the New York Mets. Many Rockies fans wanted …

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6 comments

May 08

Hate the Dodgers? Sure. Hate Matt Kemp? Nope.

Categories:

Around Baseball

by Travis Lay

There are plenty of Rockies fans who hate the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Rockies don’t really have a rival, in my mind, so depending on which fan you ask you may get a different response to the question “which NL West team is the biggest rival to the Rockies?” I bet you get a lot …

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May 06

Chris who?! Some WAR stats

Categories:

Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, Nolan Arenado, Troy Tulowitzki

by Travis Lay

Take all of this for what it is worth – a real small sample size – but it is pretty apparent that the Rockies have a few studs and thankfully they finally made the switch at third base. All stats (pictures) come from Fangraphs.com. (Click on them to make them bigger) The first picture is …

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Apr 30

Chris who?

Categories:

Chris Nelson, Nolan Arenado, Rockies

by Travis Lay

Nelson was a liability in the field for the Rockies

In 71 plate appearances in 2013 Chris Nelson had a total of three extra-base hits and none of those three went over the fence. In 664 plate appearances with the Rockies in total, spanning four seasons, Nelson had hit 13 home runs for the Rockies. For all of the talk in the Root Sports broadcast …

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22 comments

Apr 24

“Crafty” Rockies pitchers toss BP in the cold

Categories:

Jeff Francis, Jon Garland, Rockies

by Travis Lay

Yesterday I was stuck listening to the Rockies games on the radio or watching on MLB At Bat or MLB Gameday. Work interfered with the first game and then my kid got in the way of the second game. Both semi-decent excuses for not watching, right? Ya, I don’t think so either. I’ll do better …

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7 comments

Apr 23

How good is Dexter Fowler?

Categories:

Dexter Fowler, Rockies

by Travis Lay

Dexter Fowler is good. I think that is a very safe statement, yet I am amazed at how many fans still would rather see Eric Young Jr. in the outfield than Dexter. Dexter Fowler is one of the best five best center fielders in all of baseball. *Look of bewilderment* I think even that statement …

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Apr 17

The Rockies are 10-4 and came from behind in a cold second game of a double-header

Categories:

Rockies

by Travis Lay

Mets players "warming up" and playing catch in the snow. Thanks to Thomas Harding for the picture.

The Rockies are 10-4 and came from behind in a cold second game of a double-header and both of those are just as astonishing to me on this rainy Wednesday morning. Who would have thought the Rockies would come out of the gate firing like this? Who would have thought that the pitching would be …

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Apr 11

The Rockies at AT&T Park

Categories:

Rockies

by Travis Lay

…and SBC Park and Pac Bell Park. All we heard about the past few days as the Rockies had the realization of what to expect in 2013 come crashing down in McCovey’s Cove in San Francisco was how bad the Rockies play in San Francisco, in particular at AT&T Park. I got to wondering…is it …

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Apr 08

My weekend of Rockies (in pictures)

Categories:

Off the Field, Rockies

by Travis Lay

On the light rail headed downtown at about 10am on Friday.

Here are some of the pictures I took on Friday and Saturday. For Opening Day we didn’t get tickets to the game, but that wasn’t going to keep us from the party that is Opening Day in LoDo. Saturday I used my first press credential of the year, and, wow, they totally redid the press …

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Apr 02

I’m looking at Game 1 as a positive

Categories:

Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler, Jhoulys Chacin, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki

by Travis Lay

Dex trotting the bases after his game-tying HR late

I watched nine hours of straight baseball yesterday. It. Was. Awesome. It started early with the Yankees and Red Sox, two teams sure to fight for last place in the AL East, or so I can hope and finished with watching some of the Cardinals and Diamondbacks in bed before falling asleep around 8:30 or …

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Cuddy v Beltran

Hate the Dodgers? Sure. Hate Matt Kemp? Nope.

Chris who?! Some WAR stats

Chris who?

“Crafty” Rockies pitchers toss BP in the cold

How good is Dexter Fowler?

The Rockies are 10-4 and came from behind in a cold second game of a double-header

The Rockies at AT&T Park

My weekend of Rockies (in pictures)

I’m looking at Game 1 as a positive

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