Pitchers to throw +300 IP with an ERA below 2.00 in their first two seasons:

We're kinda losing the plot for both Cal and Judge tbh. Cal is having an all-time great season for a catcher (with the counting stats being cherry on top) and Judge is having another one of the greatest hitting seasons since integration.

the hemming and hawing about whether or not this is MVP or not is missing the forest for the trees, this is incredible and needs to be appreciated as such

Well this is a hyperbolic statement if I've ever seen one lol. Judge has a .455 OBP. No one else is even at .400. He's also gonna win the batting title and lead MLB in SLG by like, 70 points. He's galaxies ahead of Cal as a hitter. Whether that's enough to offset solid catching value is up to you.

Rockies on the verge of allowing 1000 runs this season and they still have four more games to go after this one.

We are watching the best non-Bonds, four year offensive run of any player we have ever watched and it gets lost in a lot of myopic arguments, frequently about “who has more homers”

Every Rockies fan seeing other bad teams making decisions and waiting for the organization they root for to do something relevant as well:

atRockies, when the Washington Nationals are more decisive and beating you to the punch, you may or may not be doomed.

Tarik Skubal just did some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen from a pitcher 😭😭😭😭

If you're wondering how thin the Guardians position player group is, Austin Hedges hitting against Tarik Skubal with 2 on, 2 out in a 1-0 game in the 5th isn't even a ludicrous proposition.

"Challenge system probably means end of K-zone box on broadcasts"

this is my personal bat signal www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Will never not share this whenever I see it

The on-screen K-zone has ruined so many of your brains and made you perpetually miserable while watching baseball and its death cannot come soon enough

Just your classic OST for Zaragoza, Spain on any late September day

I fear that people have unrealistic expectations for Ethan Holliday because of his last name tbh. Imo he's one of the biggest boom or bust high profile draftees I've seen in a while. Nothing about his profile is a certainty.

Very much looking forward to Judge or Raleigh winning MVP by a slim margin after splitting all 1st place votes between them and everyone raging because their pick was "robbed". It will be funny.

I didn't follow last year's White Sox enough to affirm this but I'll say that these Rockies are bad to an extent that feels completely cartoonish. They genuinely don't do anything well outside of having a couple of nice relievers and you can't point to bad luck either.

The 2025 Colorado Rockies are one of the worst baserunning teams I've ever seen. It's appalling how terrible they are at stealing bases in particular. 86 steals to 39 caught stealings feels impossible in 2025 but by God they manage it.

OK, speaking of the Rockies There are 21 pitcher/pitch-type combos this year of at least -11 runs 9 of them are Rockies fastballs. That's so obviously related to Coors, it should go without saying. But also: fastballs that shouldn't be thrown? baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

Underrated problem when you're not analytically driven: it's harder to self scout and thus way easier to fall into predictable patterns. Almost no Rockies pitcher generates chase, either. God, they suck...

Imagine the numbers if the Rockies were, you know, good?

Number 4

Just saw someone on a YouTube comment section insisting that Juan González and Albert Belle were —respectively— as good as and better than Mike Trout. Not kidding. They were getting support, too. LMAO.

No matter how much I've watched them this year I can't stop being amazed because they are just so, so bad. Like, shockingly terrible. I don't think you could build a team (and depth) this terrible if you tried. They have scored the 2nd-fewest runs in MLB. The ROCKIES!! Who play at COORS FIELD!!!!

Germán Márquez has looked absolutely terrible since coming back from the IL and my heart breaks a little more with every start he makes.

That Tong inning was painful to watch. Also, how in the world did no one get loose until the kid had thrown like 30 pitches already?????

The Looney Tunes Show

The Rockies are averaging 2.8 runs per game on the road and that still feels like it's too much, somehow.

"The left" "The right" Everyone is doomed. Everyone is fighting the wrong battles. Everyone is way too self-centered to look for more than self-satisfaction. Not one of the people whom you think represent you give a fuck about your plight. They're friends with those you've been lead to hate.

Believe what you wish to believe. Organized religion is a fucking parasite on human groups.

remember the offseason when the Dodgers were ruining baseball? those headlines were laughably wrong. but the Dodgers *are* kinda ruining baseball through their casual indifference to the regular season:

Luis Arráez's free agency is going to be one of the most fascinating baseball happenings I can recall.

If you missed it from before:

The Rockies being 29th in MLB in raw runs scored should be enough on its own to get, like, 17 people fired.

The immortal words of the Rockies broadcast regarding Beck's defense: "the numbers say something else, but we know better. He's superb" resonate in my head over and over again here. (No comment on Moniak and Freeman.)

New Rockies Pitch!

and at least one pitching coach should be filleted

Death. Taxes. Every single fanbase in baseball believes that their team's bullpen is fucking terrible and should be DFA'd in its entirety.

On Devin Williams and his "it's over - we're so back - it's SO over" season. Some of it is unfortunate context-based volatility that should even out eventually. Some of it, though, is his airbending changeup not being quite as fearsome as it ought to be. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

So much more to Dollander's struggles than "LOL Coors"

His approach is fundamentally broken. Too many fastballs, big slow curve as the primary putaway pitch, slider is cutter-ish (and has no confidence in it or the change right now), missing periphal offerings. Golden arm. But he needs help. He's pitching like Nolan Ryan. It's 2025. That won't cut it.

Maybe the Rockies stink in the first inning because their starters go out there and throw 70% fastballs like it's 2008.

Logan Webb is leading MLB in innings pitched again. Leading the NL for the third straight year, probably gonna get to the finish line like that. Beyond remarkable to do it in this era.

Juan Mejía has closer talent. Just crazy how gifted he is.

I would hope that this opinion is held by most people, honestly. His presence in the Hall of Fame invalidates the institution all by itself.

The Rockies bunting with the no. 2 hitter with two on and no outs in a 7th inning tie. Deliciously 1992.