Purple Row · Oct 29, 2020
Daniel Murphy was doomed from the beginning in Colorado
Despite an injury plagued season split between the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals in 2018, expectations were high when Daniel Murphy signed with the Rockies before the 2019 season. After a wondrous stretch as one of the best hitters in baseball with the New York Mets and Washington Nationals, it wasn’t unrealistic to expect Murphy to quickly return to his dominant ways in the hitter friendly Coors Field. His “down” year in 2018 still yielded a .299 batting average, a performance that’s only considered poor when the two years prior produced averages of .347 and .322, the former which was good for second in the MLB behind D.J. LeMahieu that year.