Before I get into that Adonis pictured above, I need to cover a few other things about the Rocks. Now that we're 102 games into the season you get a very good picture of what this team is and i'd have to say i'm content. Not happy, but content. The Rocks are 2 games under .500 and 5 games out of the wildcard, not out but no one considers them a threat nor should they. The team for the first time in seemingly a decade is not going to lose 100 games. They're not championship contenders by any stretch but they're trending in the right direction.
The Rockies are in a situation unique to them and them alone: they are a team that has an owner (Dick 'I hope gets hit by a rogue Light Rail train' Monfort) who has strangled this team financially for years by not allowing any serviceable amount of money be spent to improve the product on the field. Plus, playing a mile at altitude the park designers have to choose between if they want WAY too many home runs to be hit or make an outfield so big that its not plausible for 3 outfielders to have sufficient coverage of all the real estate. Either choice leads to pitchers having a massively inflated ERA which in turn scares off pitchers from signing here. So how do you fix a dickhead GM and a stadium that is actively keeping FA's from signing? You do what new-ish GM Jeff Bridich has done; stock pile draft picks while you're a bottom feeder team, pump what little money you're allowed into making the farm system as high quality as you can and hope to god you come across some good ground ball pitchers. For the most part, its worked, or started to at least. Rockies have the most runs scored with an offense that is 2nd to none consisting of Car-Go, Blackmon, Lamehieu, Arenado, oh and TREVOR STORY. The team can flat out hit. So much so that the team is starting to pull itself out of the squalor and ruin that the bottom of the MLB is. You'd love to see better pitching, but again that's a deck stacked against you in that stadium so it will have to be home grown or traded for. (Which is another reason I've come to like the Tulo trade). The team seems as though its heading in the right direction and if they can put together a pitching staff that at least keeps them within striking distance of other teams, they're poised to 'make some noise.'
Now onto a man who walked into a dreary and depressing Coors Field and shined a light brighter than we've seen in a while. He's teaching under privileged children to read while simultaneously saving kittens from burning buildings; Jammin up Super models while making grown men weep in envy (not really, but you and i could both see that happening.) Trevor Story is so much better than even he was hyped to be, which was quite a bit. At the time I was furious about the Tulo trade, thought it was another blatant salary dump of a player who rightly was unhappy losing and would require an exorbitant amount of money come contract time. But my good personal friend Jeff Bridich knew something I didn't. Story started off the season on pace to hit approximately 300 home runs in the first 10 games. After a few months, like all rookies do, he slumped and stuck out quite a bit and some doubt started to creep in. However since July he's picked it back up and is now leading the National League in home runs....AS A ROOKIE. MORE than Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Mike Stanton, Kris Bryant, Yo Cespedes, all of them, as a rookie. its been a rough go for a few years at Coors but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe, that soulless dickbag still owns the team so who knows.
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