Dan Olson, Ian Cerveny, Jason Dennee and a multiple personality disorder discuss the Colorado Rockies’ April run. This PSC Rockies podcast was recorded on location at the Familia Camarena Tequila Loft above the Coors Field bullpens during a wintry late-April game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies.
The MLB-best Colorado Rockies have shot out to a 10-2 record over the first two weeks of the 2011 Season. Find out why they’re so damn good, how long the ride will last, and why the Rockies are favorites to win the NL West
The Colorado Rockies have the look of a division winner with just 154 games to go in the 2011 MLB Season.
In the final installment from this week’s podcast series, we finally get to talk baseball! Spring training is underway, and the Rockies have made some bold moves to sign and extend their core players, and to bring in a couple players to fill some holes. We talk about the Tulo and CarGo signings, and then discuss the new players. We end up with a quick-fire prediction round – what’s YOUR prediction for the Rockies season? Stay tuned for a more in-depth Rockies podcast next week.
Carlos is represented by super-agent Scott Boras, who has never given up potential free-agent market-mauling in favor of an extension. Gonzalez could have waited until 2014 to hit free agency, considerably driving up his price tag on the open market.
The Colorado Rockies are a team of players whose most defining attribute is their inherently natural approach to the game. Brad Hawpe, Carlos Gonzalez, Ubaldo Jimenez and Troy Tulowitzki, the Rockies’ youth core, are very simply a band of gifted naturals.
Sitting at 20-21 and 4 games back in the highly competitive NL West (the Padres, Dodgers and Giants all are within 1.5 games of one another), the Rockies can find some small consolation in knowing the bulk of their home games and divisional schedule remain. But the season is a quarter of the way through and time is running out for this team to find its identity.
This is about as close a game as you will get… the Dodgers just got the breaks. But the Rockies need win only one game this series, and with Ubaldo Jimenez pitching Sunday we can feel good about the odds. This series probably hinges on Jhoulys Chacin vs. Charlie Haeger tomorrow. I’ll be watching and so should you. Jhoulys is a high-potential young starter for these Rockies.
Ubaldo Jimenez didn’t need to pitch 6 Innings of 2-hit baseball on Tuesday night… but he did anyway. U-Ball grabbed his 5th win of the season without breaking a sweat, as the Rockies’ re-shuffled lineup brutalized troubled Arizona starter Edwin Jackson for 10 runs in 2 1/3 Innings.
Nearing the end of April, the Colorado Rockies are 20 games into the season. Yet, after 180 innings of baseball, the team and its direction remain an enigma and the Rox find themselves searching for answers.
