[First and foremost I want to apologize to all my faithful fans out there (the 7 of you) for my leave of absence in the last week. Finals took a frontseat to everything else. Sorry.]
The Rockies are 3.0 games back in the division, sitting at .500 through 28 games. But there is no need to fret.
The Rockies pitchers have a 3.75 ERA which is half a run lower than the league average. The pitching staff is 5th youngest in the NL. The NL West is the toughest division in all of baseball, (All the reporters may claim it’s the AL East, but you can’t tell me with a straight face that the Rays and Yanks could matchup with the Padres, Giants, and Rockies. 3 of the top 5 ERAs in the NL) so that means that there are going to be two teams coming out of this division is October.
But that’s not the best part. Other than Ubaldo, who is getting some recognition throughout the league, finally, the pitching staff is beat up. Aaron Cooke always starts out slow. Jeff Francis, our favorite Canadian (take a seat Nash), who was our ace and started the first game of the 2007 World Series is coming off the DL soon. The hidden-gem, 16 game winner De La Rosa is hurt and again plays better when the heat is on. And the 5th starter; Chacin could hold it down, Hammel has proven that he can hold his own and a player that has as much stuff as anybody in the league, even Ubaldo, but just needs to throw it over the plate (and he started several games the last few years) Franklin Morales.
And if all 7 of these guys don’t get it done there is no need to worry we have pitchers everywhere else around the diamond. Wouldn’t you like to see the missile launchers in Tulo, Gonzales, Stewart and Hawpe on the bump just throwing gas? I know I would. These guys could easily touch the 90’s. And you have the crafty veteran who used to pitch in The Toddfather. But I hope that doesn’t happen because they all can really play in the field.
And defense wins championships so…
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