And thanks Wayne for the Giamatti quote – good read.

CF Fowler
RF Gonzalez
LH Holiday
1B Helton
SS Tulo
3B Stewart
C Torrealba
2B Young/Barmes

Hope the obtain some good RH hitting talent of some kind to the OF or 2B. I’m looking forward to see what the Rockies management do in the offseason. I don’t think they need to do alot, but keep their young core team in place, trade a few guys like Atkins and Hawpe to pickup the pieces to help improve for their future.

And, although the last two losses were sad, the Rockies did have a great season and have a lot to be proud of.

I think that the team can even be better next year and am looking forward to next April.

Here are my votes for what should happen during the offseason:

Let Atkins, Hawpe, Marquis, and Omar go.

Let Stewart, CarGo, Fowler, and Smith be the starters in their positions. Keep Spilly as a backup outfielder and a right handed bat.

Exercise the option on Bettancourt; he’s worth the $5,000,000 that the team will have to pay him.

Try to resign Giambi. With Atkins gone, he becomes the backup to Helton as well as a pinch hitter.

Resign Yorvit. We all hope that Chris improves over this year, but just in case he doesn’t, it would be great to have Yorvit back for another year.

Enjoy a starting rotation of Ubaldo, Cookie, Francis, DLR, and Hamel, and a bullpen that includes Street, Bettancourt, Corpas, Buchholz, Daley, Belisle, Morales, and another leftie to be named later (Beimel?) (I know that’s probably one reliever too many). Figure out if Greg Smith and Greg Reynolds are ready to make a contribution next year.

Keep Barmes for the defense, and hope that he hits another 23 home runs, and regains his batting average from the past. Have EY as his backup as well as an extra outfielder, along with Spilly.

Find a backup third baseman who hits right handed and is a good pinch hitter.

For those out there that are disappointed, just remember when it’s all said and done Baseball is entertainment, pure and simple. And what an entertaining year it was. I remember writing in May I thought the season was already over and the Rocks should start looking forward to next year. Well, I have to admit I was wrong.
The Rocks took us all on a magical ride didn’t they? To me, this was better than 2007 because it was 4 months in the making. Watching the games every day, coming here and chatting with other RockHeads. (I should patent that right now….. Everyone, you heard it from me here first. We could make hats in the shape of rocks…. hahahahaha)

Oh I was not wrong about everything, the part about looking forward to next year, I was right on that score. I’m looking forward to next year even more now. It should be fun. And enteraining.

WooHoo!!!!

I’ll keep coming back here as well to see what the Rocks are doing to reload the roster and what everyones opinions are of those moves. I know many times I came here for the sole purpose to get others opinions. This is a great site for that. Thanks to the InsideTheRockies team for providing this forum.

I expect we’ll lose a few friends over the off season, Atkins for example. I know he was derided this year, but don’t forget all the good times he has shown us in previous years. But with the emergence of Ian Stewart, the Rocks won’t be able to pay him what he is worth to other teams. And we’ll get a chance to welcome some new friends as well.

Adios for now everyone. See you soon.

Yes the end was disappointing, but really we went toe to toe with the defending World Champs and 3 of the 4 games went right down to the wire. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, for Huston Street, or anyone else on the team.

I’ve been a Rockies fan for about 10 years now and a baseball fan a lot longer. 2007 was a thrill I’ll never forget but this has been the first year that I’ve seen the Rockies play consistently good, fundamental baseball over a long period of time. 5 starters with 10 wins says a lot, especially having to pick up two arms due to injuries. The defense was solid. The hitting was a bit streaky, but good enough to get the job done most days. I think the streakiness is a sign of a young team with lots of potential and that it’ll improve as players mature a bit.

This organization clearly has a long-term plan that’s realistic for our market size, has capable people executing it, and it’s working. Look around the front offices of baseball and you’ll see how rare that is. The challenge for 2010 is to play an entire season of solid, fundamental baseball, from April till October, and thereby win the division.

The last two losses are a bitter pill to swallow, but when you put things in perspective, this is a great time to be a Rockies fan!

Finally, thanks to Tracy Ringolsby and the staff of insidetherockies.com for providing this site and to the people who take the time to write the kind of thoughtful and friendly comments you just don’t see at the more mainstream sites.

Great Season Rox’s

Great Season Rockies Fans.

Rockies fans
We have all grown this season.
We’re all stronger for yesterday history making game @ Coors Field.
More history was made at Coors Field this year .
Walk off Grand Slams
Heltons’sDoubles
Cards Clinch
Rox’s Clinch
Phils Clinch
alright not all of it good
but it is this kind if
stuff that will get us as fans and a team worthy if the title
World champs.
Showing up strong.
We are all stronger for suffering thur this.
We will all be that much stronger next year.

We need a bat to combat the leftys with that
Watch out This theam has only just begun.

Rockies WS Champs 2010