When the Rockies made their first trip to Tampa Bay since 2004, they may have gotten a glimpse of their own future.
Sitting the stands at Tropicana Field for two games of that series, what jumped out at me even more than the, shall we say, deficiencies of the ballpark and Blake Snell’s prodigious talent was the Rays bullpen.
In the three-game series, the Tampa Bay bullpen (assuming we don’t count Ryan Yarborough, who pitched 4 1⁄3 innings in the series opener after taking over for Ryne Stanek) pitched 13 innings, allowing just one run on four hits with two walks and 17 strikeouts.