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How decisions made in 2016 and 2017 doomed the 2019 Rockies

The Rockies are bad. Not historically bad, but they’re bad. They are twelve games below .500. They are projected to finish the year at 74-88. If the season ended today, there would be seven—seven!—teams ahead of them in the Wild Card race. They have the third-worst record in the National League.

On the surface, this might seem surprising—in 2017 and 2018, the Rockies were good. Several outlets predicted the Rockies to win the Wild Card this year, and some even speculated that they might win the division. The general consensus was that there was nowhere for the Rockies to go but up: they had stars in the infield, two young aces atop the rotation, and they had finally jettisoned some of their dead-weight veterans from the roster.