For most of April, the Rockies didn’t have an ace. If anyone wanted their name in the mix for that title, Jon Gray certainly didn’t deserve to lay claim.
Here we are a month later, and the Rockies are still without an obvious ace on the mound, but for a completely opposite reason. Last month, no one deserved it. Now, it’s hard to decide who doesn’t.
Something changed for Colorado on April 24, and for the last 11 games, only one pitcher (Tyler Anderson, who exited an April 27 win in Miami with dizziness and shortness of breath after 1.