Scott Oberg’s season ended before it started

Welcome to the 2020 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2020. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). It’s not something the staff debated. We’ll begin with the player with the lowest rWAR and end up with the player with the highest.

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Scott Oberg was the Rockies best overall pitcher in 2019 and was poised to take over officially as the Rockies closer in 2020. He had a 2.25 ERA in 2019, and his 2.45 ERA was barely edged out by Adam Ottavino’s 2.43 in 2018. Oberg has been…