Thread: The Official Colorado Rockies thread--Now with extra awesome!!

This is from 2010 through 2015:

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               	G	HR	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	CS	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	HBP	SF
Coors Field	972	1170	34306	5430	10036	2001	326	5174	615	223	3046	.293	.353	.574	.927	293	282
Chase Field	968	998	33212	4434	8714	1857	261	4227	488	236	2882	.262	.325	.518	.843	300	259
Dodger Stad	972	822	32495	3653	7943	1525	98	3475	556	249	2841	.244	.309	.449	.757	286	219
Petco Park	972	747	32443	3520	7617	1432	210	3319	732	270	3056	.235	.304	.435	.738	254	208
AT&T Park	974	631	32678	3529	8013	1593	255	3338	559	262	2869	.245	.309	.443	.752	246	240

It's just the NL West, but you can immediately see the disparities. 539 more home runs in Coors Field than AT&T Park. 569 more doubles than Petco, 228 more triples than Dodger Stadium. Everyone talks about the triples at AT&T, yet Coors Field has 71 more in the last six seasons. A combined slash line of .293/.353./574./927 for all hitters. That's amazing. Subsequently, RBIs and runs are also tops. It even ranks second in steals. I'm not even sure why that would create more steals, but my theory would be that teams just play more aggressive in Coors Field because they know they have to score more.

One note: Not sure about the disparity between games played at Chase Field versus AT&T Park and then the other three. All numbers from the Play Index at www.baseball-reference.com.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Rockies reached across town this week to hire psychologist and former NFL linebacker Dr. Rick Perea as their mental skills coach, a job with immediate concerns for club.

Perea also works with the Denver Broncos as a sports performance consultant, helping players, including Brock Osweiler, and executives. He'll continue working with both teams.

With the Rockies, Perea replaces Andy McKay, who left the Rockies in October to become the Seattle Mariners farm director.

Perea will focus on the Rockies' major-league roster out of Denver.

"A lot of people recommended him," Rockies head athletic trainer Keith Dugger said. "He's very high-energy. We thought we could utilize what he does to help our guys."

rest - http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci...l-skills-coach

Trevor Story has hit three bombs in spring training, is he going to be our opening day SS?

Originally Posted by chazoe60

Trevor Story has hit three bombs in spring training, is he going to be our opening day SS?

Probably should be.

The wife and I took the rest of the week off and we drove the family to Phoenix for a mini vacation so today and Saturday we'll be watching the Rockies @ Salt River Fields. This place is very nice.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

The wife and I took the rest of the week off and we drove the family to Phoenix for a mini vacation so today and Saturday we'll be watching the Rockies @ Salt River Fields. This place is very nice.

Did you miss the storm?

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Did you miss the storm?

Yep, suckas.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

Yep, suckas.

A$$hole.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

The wife and I took the rest of the week off and we drove the family to Phoenix for a mini vacation so today and Saturday we'll be watching the Rockies @ Salt River Fields. This place is very nice.

Hell yeah.

Cargo's arm is ******* impressive.

Some takeaways from the game:

Trevor Story looks like the real deal to me. Made a couple of impressive plays in the field and hit the ball very well. He just looks like a big league short stop.

With the addition of Para our OF is awesome. Cargo and Para both have amazing arms and Blackmon is a more than competent CF.

We brainfarted in the second inning and had 3 errors but regardless of the fact I really believe that we will be a very strong defensive team. We have gold glove talent at 3rd, 2nd and in the OF.

Dustin Garneau (our probable #2 catcher) had a very nice game.

Our pitching was terrible. No surprise here. We didn't pitch any of our top end guys, but for the most part all the pitchers sucked.

We will not be a Playoff team but I do have some hope that we'll be better than last year. Im not making that claim based on watching one spring game I'm basing it on the entire offeseason. I like the addition of Para and I think Story is going to be a pleasant surprise. I'm really interested to see if Bettis can become our ace. I see a lot of potential with him.

Jon Gray is going to miss the start of the season. Abdominal strain.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

This is from 2010 through 2015:

Code:

               	G	HR	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	CS	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	HBP	SF
Coors Field	972	1170	34306	5430	10036	2001	326	5174	615	223	3046	.293	.353	.574	.927	293	282
Chase Field	968	998	33212	4434	8714	1857	261	4227	488	236	2882	.262	.325	.518	.843	300	259
Dodger Stad	972	822	32495	3653	7943	1525	98	3475	556	249	2841	.244	.309	.449	.757	286	219
Petco Park	972	747	32443	3520	7617	1432	210	3319	732	270	3056	.235	.304	.435	.738	254	208
AT&T Park	974	631	32678	3529	8013	1593	255	3338	559	262	2869	.245	.309	.443	.752	246	240

It's just the NL West, but you can immediately see the disparities. 539 more home runs in Coors Field than AT&T Park. 569 more doubles than Petco, 228 more triples than Dodger Stadium. Everyone talks about the triples at AT&T, yet Coors Field has 71 more in the last six seasons. A combined slash line of .293/.353./574./927 for all hitters. That's amazing. Subsequently, RBIs and runs are also tops. It even ranks second in steals. I'm not even sure why that would create more steals, but my theory would be that teams just play more aggressive in Coors Field because they know they have to score more.

One note: Not sure about the disparity between games played at Chase Field versus AT&T Park and then the other three. All numbers from the Play Index at www.baseball-reference.com.

I'd be interested to see these totals on a complete MLB comparison. Tough to gauge it in the NL West where 3 of the 4 parks are VERY pitcher friendly. That being said, the 2015 park factor index has Coors #5 in HR...but #1 in runs, hits and triples and #3 in doubles. Which would decisively give Coors the #1 rating for hitter friendly parks.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

Some takeaways from the game:

Trevor Story looks like the real deal to me. Made a couple of impressive plays in the field and hit the ball very well. He just looks like a big league short stop.

With the addition of Para our OF is awesome. Cargo and Para both have amazing arms and Blackmon is a more than competent CF.

We brainfarted in the second inning and had 3 errors but regardless of the fact I really believe that we will be a very strong defensive team. We have gold glove talent at 3rd, 2nd and in the OF.

Dustin Garneau (our probable #2 catcher) had a very nice game.

Our pitching was terrible. No surprise here. We didn't pitch any of our top end guys, but for the most part all the pitchers sucked.

We will not be a Playoff team but I do have some hope that we'll be better than last year. Im not making that claim based on watching one spring game I'm basing it on the entire offeseason. I like the addition of Para and I think Story is going to be a pleasant surprise. I'm really interested to see if Bettis can become our ace. I see a lot of potential with him.

We don't have a top end pitcher on the roster. All of the positivity around Story and some of our younger positional players will be wasted on the world's worst pitching staff.

Originally Posted by Buff

We don't have a top end pitcher on the roster. All of the positivity around Story and some of our younger positional players will be wasted on the world's worst pitching staff.

Obviously I meant top end strictly in relative terms.