On Tuesday, our own Luke Mullins wrote an excellent article on whether Colorado Rockies left-handed starter Kyle Freeland is having a better season as a starter than Ubaldo Jimenez’s 2010 season where his 2.88 ERA and 19 wins are still franchise bests.
This got the hamster wheel spinning and to take the conversation a little further, is the Rockies’ current starting rotation better than the 2009 rotation, which is considered to be the Rockies best rotation in franchise history?
That ’09 rotation had phenomenal numbers by Rockies’ standards. The staff, consisting of mostly Ubaldo, Jorge De La Rosa, Jason Marquis, Jason Hammel, and Aaron Cook, had a combined ERA of 4.