Rockies quitting has upside?
As it stands, the recent month of joke lineups and lack of production from the few available veterans, combined with the utter choke job of the pitching rotation, has led to a bright spot.
The Rockies are currently slotted to draft 11th in next years draft. With a few more blown saves by the bullpen and continued Dairy Queen night shift quality management out of Tracy and Apodaca, we have a real chance at moving all the way up to 7 or 8.
What this means is that we can draft another high potential left handed highschool pitcher who might be ready in 6 years if his delivery isn’t completely butchered by our minor league coaching.
Ill just say: in your face diamond backs and giants haha o wait…. we got greg reynolds and giants got licecum… :(
If the Rockies let San Diego sweep them, I’m going back to being a Cubs fan.
If the management wants my hard earned dollars next year then they need to stop treating September as an audition. And they need to fight the division leaders, because IMO it borders on bad sportsmanship to give up and skew the division and wildcard races.
(Rant concluded)
What might be even better is if MLB allows us teams to trade draft picks next year and DOD trades the #7 pick to the Cubs for Angel Pagan and Carlos Zambrano.
i hate the system of worst record gets better draft slots…always have, always will…that means if a team really wanted to do well in the end, knowing they were out of contention it would hurt them in the long run – why would they play hard if they lose spots in the draft??? Stupid stupid policy…
So how would you determine who drafts 1st then?
I have no problem with it in baseball because there are so many factors that go into whether a prospect will ever make it to the pros. This isn’t like NBA and NFL where the rookie is guaranteed a roster spot and will immediately impact the team. Even the best players take 2 years to come up. I really don’t think baseball teams tank on purpose. In the case of the Rockies its ineptitude and lack of desire.
Rockies had a chance to draft Mariono Rivera. I was reading some online columns about Rivera setting the save record today and learned that in the expansion draft when the Rockies first started filling their roster and farm system, the Yankees thought so little of Rivera that they left him unprotected. This was when he was just a kid, before he threw 95+ and before he developed the cutter. Even if the Rockies had drafted him, it’s doubtful they would have shown the patience to keep him until he learned the cutter. According to Rivera it was a gift from God so he could have just as well learned it in the Rockies system rather than the Yankees.
But for some reason the Rockies seem to hold on to position players until they have no value (see Atkins, Hawpe) but get rid of pitchers too soon (see Jake Westbrook, Javier Lopez, Ramon Ramierez, Ubaldo etc.).
Can you imagine the Rockies having a closer who was successful 91% of the time for 15 years? There has been lots of grumbling about some of the guys the Rockies didn’t go after hard enough this past off-season like Uggla, Berkman, Michael Young etc. You can add Mariono to that list. But that one is not on DoD. No one knew.
This thread may not have been the proper place for this. I tried to start my own thread but I am somewhat digitally challenged.
Possible upside is Terry F. from Boston and Tony L. from St. Louis might be avail as managers. But I’m sure the Rockies will stick with the status quo for another year at least. “Future looks so bright I gotta wear shades”. Go Rocks!!
Konaman, you have touched on an interesting point that I have been mulling over, and it is this. While I can understand the front office wanting it to “seem” as though 2012 will be a competitive year, for the most part the knowledgable posters here at ITR know better – 2012 WILL be a rebuilding year. And without Doc C’s purple shades, I am beginning to think 2013 will be no better than a .500 won/loss year.
Hope I am wrong about that – but this mess is gonna take a couple years to get substantially better. Or in other words we are smack in the middle of wasting three of the prime years of having Tulo, Cargo and U… Oh that’s right he’s gone already – isn’t he.
Oh and before I forget postponing the enevitable firing of J Tracy simply makes the recovery process and time period take even longer.
Note to Monforts – it’s time to start over – now!
Rockies now at #10 pick. Conceivably within reach of 5.
Prog, anything but a #2 pick-G Reynolds or a #10-pick I Stewart will do just fine.
Its totally weird trying to cheer on the bad teams hoping they pass the Rockies in wins. Bizarro world.
Now we’re at 9. Only 2 games “back” of 5!!!