But it doesn’t have to be like this, even if 2019 becomes a glorified,162-game Spring Training for 2020. The Colorado Rockies may have crumbled in July, yet there are signs of life on this resilient team, and some performances that could excite the fanbase going into the next decade.
Pitching Breakthroughs
The starting rotation’s 2019 problems were (mostly) unexpected, though on Saturday Rox Pile’s Jake Shapiro pointed out that pitching so many innings at altitude could be partially responsible for the poor seasons of Kyle Freeland, Chad Bettis and Jeff Hoffman.