GREELEY — Last season’s disaster was an anomaly, Dick Monfort said at the annual Friends of Baseball breakfast event here Saturday morning, and he expects Colorado to bounce back strong with a franchise-record win total in 2020.
The Rockies owner, addressing the crowd gathered at the Island Grove Event Center, compared the club’s 78-win flop in 2008 — which was wedged between a World Series appearance in 2007 and another playoff appearance in 2009 — to what happened in 2019.
“In ’08, with basically the exact same team (as ’07), we won 74 games and lost 88,” Monfort said.