Not. Good.
Full disclosure: Grading The Week’s baseball wonks, like most of us, can’t wait for the Rockies to get their 17th almost R-E-B-U-I-L-D — the dirtiest seven letters at 20th & Blake — since 2019 underway.
But it’s never going to get rolling, or much as it might, if Jake Bird and Ryan McMahon don’t pick it up.
Is Jake Bird cooked? — D.
Bird’s a good dude, and relief pitching is notoriously volatile, especially at Coors Field. But brother, he’s picked a cruddy time (to put it kindly) for regression to kick in.