Obviously, last year was extremely disappointing for every Rockies’ fan. The truth is that the team we all expected to contend at the beginning of the season had a lot more weaknesses than strengths. There were massive holes at third and second base, and the outfield was pretty weak against left-handed pitching. But, even with …
Category Archive: Eric Young Jr.
Nov 01
Will the Rockies change in 2012?
Let me summarize the 2011 season for the Colorado Rockies: disappointing, horrendous, embarrassing, laughable and Troy Tulowitzki is by far the best shortstop in baseball. Some of the issues with the Rockies last year was out of their control; Jorge De La Rosa’s injury early in the season. A major part of the Rockies losing …
Sep 11
This is the Rockies starting lineup on 9/11 – no not making a lunatic connection to 9-11
The title of this piece is a coincidence and while the Rockies lineup today is a disaster its importance in on our life is nothing compared to what happened 10 years ago today. There is plenty of coverage on the greatest attack on US soil on plenty of websites. What I want to talk about …
Aug 23
Hey Jim, don’t let the door hit you on the way out
Jim Tracy’s curious lineup choices have been subject to much scrutiny this year. On this site, it’s been a particularly popular topic. In fact, his inability to logically piece together a lineup has probably been discussed too much. Nevertheless, I’m picking on sweet ole’ Jim once again and it’s because last night he may have …
Aug 10
Random thoughts about the Rockies and the NL West
While watching the game and keeping up with baseball in general last night I had a few thoughts run through my head. Not all of these thoughts are clean enough for any sort of public forum and even some of my thoughts relate to baseball. None of them are deep enough for me to justify …
Aug 04
Analyzing recent Rockies lineups
There are some unwritten manager rules in baseball that have been around a long, long time. Some of them are OK, like giving your pitcher the green light to throw at an opposing player when the opposing team plops your stud hitter in the back. Some of them are just plain dumb, like putting the …
Jul 22
Carlos Gonzalez lands on DL and Rockies small hopes of playoffs dashed
With the Colorado Rockies 10 games behind the National League West leading San Francisco Giants and Carlos Gonzalez hitting the disabled list today due to tendinitis in his wrist the Rockies hopes, however small, of making the playoffs are gone. CarGo tweaked his wrist yesterday against Tommy Hanson and even though he flew with the …









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