The Rockies are Closer to Competitive Than We Thought

It is nearing the end of May, and there are still many double takes coming from baseball fans taking a glance at the National League West scorecard so far. Roughly a month and a half into the season, with just over 40 games played, the Rockies aren’t in the cellar. You can call it the benefits of a team reaping the benefits of some thus-far underperforming division behemoths, or the team’s typical early season overperformance pattern. Nevertheless, the Rockies’ record continually hovers near .500, and it’s time to point out what is becoming increasingly obvious: This Rockies team is much better than we thought. They may even be…good. No, nobody should be running out to by Rocktober 2016 gear, and yes, we are only about 1/4th of the way through the season. But I recently wrote about some promising signs from April baseball, and as the season edges from infancy to adolescence, we are starting to see some relatively sustained signs that the Rockies can finish as a near-.500 team when the season pulls into its final weeks. So, in the tradition of negligent early-season optimism, we ask ourselves: can the Rockies maintain a .500 record in 2016; is mediocrity [...]

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