Colorado Rockies: Team preview and prediction for 2020 season

Colorado Rockies: 2020 Preview and Prediction

Offensively, this is a gifted team regardless of what’s going on in the organization. You already have Arenado who’s a top-five player in this league and has just missed out on several NL MVPs. Then you have Trevor Story who continues to be on the rise as both a power threat at the plate and a slick-fielding glove at shortstop.

Story is actually so good at the position, the Colorado Rockies are now trying to establish two of their higher prospects (Garrett Hampson and Brendan Rodgers) at other positions to ensure they make it into the lineup when they’re ready to play at the big level full-time. Give him another year or two and we could be talking about how Trevor Story is the best overall shortstop in baseball.

There’s Charlie Blackmon in right field who the Rockies also floated in trade rumors last season when the team wasn’t doing so hot. But Blackmon still hit .314 last year with 32 big flies. He’s not even that old at age 33 and he’s expressed how he wants to stay in Colorado. The one setback with him is he doesn’t have the wheels he once did to steal bases and play center field. But other than that, Blackmon at the top of this Rockies lineup is about one of the best table-setters you can have this day and age, and he provides consistent power numbers.

You have a very under-the-radar guy in David Dahl who could just be the best lefty hitter in the league against lefty pitchers. Last year, Dahl hit .319 against lefties in 116 at-bats. The Rockies really like him in the four-spot in the lineup, which is actually a rather cool, innovative move being that Dahl isn’t your prototypical cleanup hitter with ungodly power numbers. Dahl is more of a table-setter at the top of your order, but he doesn’t strike out a lot and timely hitting is his brand.

Then you look at the rest of the Rockies on offense- Daniel Murphy, a former MVP, Ryan McMahon, a converted first-basemen who the Rockies love at second base (following in the footsteps of the Brewers in what they did with Travis Shaw and Mike Moustakas), and Ian Desmond who still casually hits you 20 home runs a season and can play almost every position.

This is a run-producing machine the Rockies offense is. They finished ninth in scoring last year and (assuming they don’t trade any of them), this team year-in and year-out houses three legit MVP candidates in Arenado, Story, and Blackmon. The offense is not the issue on this team.