Will the Colorado Rockies Continue With Their Winning Season
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The Major League Baseball season is a marathon season of hot and cold streaks. A fast start to a season can be erased as easily as a three-run lead within the hitter friendly mile high atmosphere of Coors Field, where the Colorado Rockies call home. The Rockies are leading the National League West after a surprising start to the season. The next marker of their continued success or failure is the All-Star break in July which will be a good indication of their talent and ability to sustain their lofty play.
The Colorado Rockies have been a mystery each year but their story is not a fictional tale anymore.
The Rockies have raced ahead to a surprising start and have maintained the lead in a very competitive NL West division against the favorite Dodgers and the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rockies face a long season ahead but they continue to thrive. If you build a talented club around one of the game’s great talents in Arenado, the reigning NL batting champ D.J. LeMahieu and some recent All-Stars (Charlie Blackmon, Carlos Gonzalez and Ian Desmond), along with solid veteran players, your team will prosper — in theory
The Rockies annually potent offense and run production at Coors field was part of their identity but they were missing the pieces to get to post season. Only once in the past five years has the team kept its batting average on the road within 50 points of the mark at home. Over the last four seasons, the Rockies have managed to win only 115 games away from home — a dismal .360 winning percentage.
But things have changed as the Rockies are winning on the road with much improved pitching and defense. A more balanced club this season winning more on the road than at home is the biggest difference in this early season. So why should anybody continue to doubt the Rockies who have not had a winning record since 2010 and have not finished with a winning record since the year before that. Their success was a work in progress that finally arrived with a big splash in a pool of very competitive teams ready to crash your party if you sink.
The Colorado bullpen is posting the fourth lowest team average against in the National League at .230, along with a 4.40 ERA. The Rockies team ERA at 4.42, a big improvement for a team that has posted the worst ERA in the NL in four of the last five seasons.
This shift to better pitching has allowed offensive production to maintain their expected leadership through the season. The starting staff is much improved with a handful of young arms producing better than anticipated results. Now their ability to finish a game with confidence has changed to a winning attitude in the clubhouse. Even the Vegas oddsmakers at the Westgate Superbook posted the over/under total prop bet at 80 games for the Rockies. That is a 500 win percentage which the Rockies will surpass.
The NL West has three of the top five records in the National League with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks a few wins behind the Rockies. The Dodgers are increasing their pressure on the Rockies and are the favorites to win the West division. The two clubs recently split a two-game series, proving that the Dodger will be the main obstacle for the Rockies.
Maybe it’s time to ignore those misconceptions of the Rockies and consider them a contender for a post season berth as a division winner or wild card. These Rockies have clearly placed themselves in a position to continue their winning ways with their early success providing them confidence to stay in contention.
