Colorado Rockies: Team preview and prediction for 2020 season
By Sean Basile
Will 2020 be a Rocky Mountain high or Rocky Mountain low for the Colorado Rockies in the NL West? Underlying organizational issues may doom them.
Hashtag Rocktober was put on hold last season after a letdown performance out of the Colorado Rockies. This is a team with all the talent in the world, but what they really lack is consistency.
Can 2020 be a year where they pull themselves together and make a run at a postseason berth, or will we see a similar result as we did in 2019?
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The Rockies go quietly under-the-radar in almost all regards, but I’ve paid a whole lot of attention to them, particularly in these past two seasons. We had them burst onto the scene in 2018 where they fell short in the NL Wild card Game. Then we had high expectations for them, in 2019, to which they completely fell flat and finished with a record of 71-91.
It’s still not abundantly clear to me yet and all I can do is speculate for the time being, but seeing how this Rockies team performed last season, I don’t particularly think it’s all on the players. Something is going on in this organization and as more time passes, the clearer it will be.
All I can do right now is look at how the front office upset Nolan Arenado by floating his name out in the league for a trade, and how the pitching staff shows a bunch of inconsistencies, particularly in the bullpen, and draw my own conclusions.