"Maybe It's The Rockies Year" Copy From McCovey Chronicles Post

the giants future is bright (more so than any other team in the division). let’s look at their young players compared to ours.

starting rotation: giants have lincecum, cain, sanchez, baumgardner. that’s a great rotation if sanchez continues to improve and baumgardner turns out well. personally i thought tim alderson was the better pitching prospect for them. they’re having fun with freddy sanchez though.

rockies have ubaldo,chacin, friedrich, matzek, hammell, morales. our starting pitching depth is better than theirs is no question. we have three top tier prospects in matzek, friedrich, and chacin. all three of those guys project better than wheeler. jimenez evens out lincecum and the rest of our prospects definitely is enough to match san fran’s.

in the bullpen, the rockies probably have the edge with buccholz and weathers coming back from injury.

the giants have some nice bats in their system in dominguez (wish we could have gotten him signed) neal (not a great prospect but definitely better than anything they’ve had recently and villalona. posey is ready right now but how does he help their future when bochy doesn’t play him? hypothetically he’s fired after the season and posey steps up big. i like him as a player. ishikawa has an average bat and although he’s talked up like he’s j.t. snow on defense i just don’t see it. sandoval is young and improving so they definitely have that going for them. velez, schierholtz, bowker, lewis are not starting major league players. overall i’d say their bats are on the way up, but there’s too many ifs in there to call it a great run producing team down the line. plus they’ll have to move dominguez, sandoval, or villalona unless one of them can move to left.

now let’s look at the rockies. our outfield of the future is seth smith, dexter fowler, and carlos gonzalez. boy are we lucky. lmao at them saying tulo and helton are the only legit hitters when cargo and seth have carried us. infield is stewart, tulo, and young jr. all of these players are 24 or younger besides smith who will be 27 at the beginning of next season. iannetta is 26 and hopefully is having a fluke year. our position prospects are down right now in the system but who needs them with the young talent we have right now? we’ve definitely got the brighter future between the two teams and probably the brightest in the nl west. sorry gnats fans, you’ve got starting pitching talent and low level position prospects, but outside of that and buster posey you’re future just doesn’t look that great. third place for the next five years sound good?

It also helps to have a groundball heavy staff and a good infield defense.

The offense is deep. With the exception of Barmes, the primary regulars are all at least league average for their positions, with most being above average (including Iannetta and the pitching staff). Even Barmes and Torrealba are about even with the Giants’ cleanup hitter when park adjustments are taken into consideration.

But you know what, it takes some class to lose with grace and it is hard to admit the strengths of your rival and competition. We tend to stereotype the MCC posters, but not every Bay Area resident is a foul mouth classless annoyance, as I think for the most part this post proves.

Carmelballin,
I look forward to competing with the Giants in the future and hope your example can elevate the discourse over at the MC Chronicles. Thanks for your post

plus Colorado has plate discipline/can grind out professional at-bats. Outs are a precious resource to the Rockies, and so they attempt to maximize each opportunity.

As for one-run games, the Rockies are 18-18, so on the whole it isn’t really clutchness/luck, it’s regression to the mean from the awful start to the season that they had.

I’d take our next three years over your next three years (good luck with that offense).

And yes, Carmelballin, we DO have a great pitching staff. Seriously.