Not the mountains. The baseball team.
Colorado has always been known for outrageous home/road splits. For a while there, the Rockies management took some action to make their stadium a more “normal” environment. The kept the balls in a humidor and they moved back some fences, and god knows what else.
Well, whatever they are doing, it isn’t enough. Or maybe they gave up. Whatever the reason, the home/road split is now worse than ever.
As of this moment, the Rockies have created the perfect storm. They are FIRST in the majors in home OPS, and LAST in road OPS. As a team, they bat .307 at home, .223 on the road. Charlie Blackmon is batting .415 at home with 16 homers, .237 on the road with five homers. Because of his home stats, he’s competing for the batting championship.
Their pitchers have a 6.75 ERA at home. I didn’t type that wrong. That’s the real number.
Gee. I wonder why they can never seem to sign any top pitchers to start half of their games in Colorado.
The ball is juiced this year, Justin Verlander pretty much accused MLB of doing this on the sly to increase interest in the game. This apparently has had a disastrous effect at Coors. Last year, the ball was heavier and a lot of Rockies pitchers had very respectable seasons.
Why the best 3rd baseman in beisbol is not in Colorado – even though Arrenado does make some totallybugyoureyesout plays at 3rd. But numero uno doesn’t care – he’ll be making (and possibly deserving) Harper money after this year. Just hope it’s still here. “Tony 2-Bags” as he is known in DC.