I think they got it wrong. The problem is not that they can’t hit, but rather that they haven’t hit yet. Too many players have been performing way below what should reasonably have been expected.

I hope the last two games are an indication that the hitting will start to come around. Maybe the arrival of Cargon and the return of Ianetta will give the club a lift as well.

We spent all of last season and a third of this one waiting for the bats to come around. Its rough that around here two games is enough to stir hope-remember when we thought the team was coming around after the detroit series? Maybe they will start to hit but thinking Chris’ line of a .231 avg and a strike out rate around 25% of the time doesn’t sound promising. Carlos could be good-he’s been killing it at AAA but how many prospects have we seen fizzle in Denver.

Fox Sports’ take on the Rockies is harsh but that’s what an unbiased observer sees.

I took the hook on Gen R -lets wait and see.

Maybe fizzle is a bad choice of a word. Maybe prospects in our chain fail to live up to the hype I hear around here.

Franklin Morales: career record is 5-4 with an ERA of 4.5
Ubaldo Jimenez: Career record is three games under .500, ERA over 4
Barmes: .260 career avg, 35 HRs, OBP .304
Ianetta: .246 career avg

People will point at Morales’ games started and say there isn’t a large enough pool of games to judge from-true, and I’m glad we didn’t trade him for Snell but Morales could easily be De la Rosa 2.0. Ubaldo gives us a reason to love him for every reason to hate him. No surprise then that he’s a .500 pitcher.
 
Clint is Clint-homegrown so he should play all the time, right?

Finally, catcher is a position the Rockies haven’t been able to nail down since Joe Girardi..ok, maybe Brett Mayne ..but as a result anytime a catcher comes through with a mitt and a mask Rockies fans get overly excited. “Dreamy”?? Mauer could pull off Dreamy. Short, fat, and bald barely qualify as homely let alone dreamy. Then there’s that BA…

So again, maybe our prospects don’t fizzle in the sense that they get shown the door out of the Majors but even Tulo is doing his best Khalil Greene imitation. Meaning, fans of bad teams will cling to anything that offers a glimmer of hope whether that’s .500 pitchers or a hobbit with shin guards.

Morales has been hurt, true, he just gives me that coulda-woulda-shoulda vibe that hard throwing lefty prospects give. There aren’t many for a reason. Love for him to heal nicely and contribute.

Ubaldo CAN be nasty but is often hurt by big innings. I’ll never doubt is talent, instead, I question his makeup. He’s soft and rattles easily. You are no doubt more versed in stats than I am but eventually if HR/9, K% and GB% were all that great it would translate into more wins and fewer big innings. I threw a no-hitter with him on Xbox which means as much statistically as the aforementioned measurements if you don’t win games.

You’re right, Clint is/was never hyped as much. I lumped him in as part of the Gen R movement. Huge heart but heart doesn’t hit.

I left Helton out because he was before Gen R-I am an undying Helton fan and couldn’t be convinced he isn’t the greatest.

Cook is a #3 at best. The hype surrounding him as the “Ace” of the staff is laughable. As I write this I’m sure he’ll no-hit the cards tonight. I don’t have time to look it up but I’d argue that he provides quantity-innings pitched but less quality. Just a thought though.

Atkins had a few good years-he’s sneaky good-I’d overlook him come fantasy time but look back at the end of the year and scratch my head wondering where that came from. Not that way anymore as you said.

Again, some good points-my logic is that if all these players were good-we would be good….waits for others to point at that month in 2007.. as it stands Gen R is mediocrity. But I hold catious optimism for the future.