On the defensive

Please, please format them properly. It’s lazy and looks bad, and is that much harder to read.

(and this third person thing? Fella, please, it’s embarrassing)

You have to wonder a bit about how the handling of Clyde affected his career. Can you imagine an 18 year old pitcher being thrown straight to the wolves of the major leagues today?

I don’t know why you’re going on the “defensive”.

I’ll assume you’re directing the “Andrew” comment to myself, but even if it’s PF, I’m sure I speak for both of us when I say that we recognize that he could bring leadership qualities to the hot corner, etc, but we also recognize the reality that he’s 38 on opening day and his game is on the decline.

If anything, you’re seeing a lot of pent up fandom waiting to unleash itself upon Coors Field.

It wouldn’t be necessarily late inning RISP. It would just be the one that counted. He often would have a 4ab 1hit line. He did not always get the RBI, but set it up.

This is exactly why we (we being devotees of Sabermetrics) hate RBIs and Runs. If you have 3 hitters who hit singles in a row, the first guy gets credited with a run scored, the third guy gets an RBI, but the middle guy gets nothing but a boost in average. Context-neutral all three guys did exactly the same thing, the first and third guys just got lucky and got the extra stats. Purporting that Aspromonte came up with late “clutch” hits more often than guys like Joe Morgan is just selective memory and wishful thinking. A guy with a .252/.308/.336 career line probably grounded weakly to second more in late-inning situations than he came up with the critical hit.

On Mora, I really liked the signing, and said so at the time. I love having hard-working high-character guys on the team; the more the better. But of the 4 probable starting infielders at least 3 of them fit that category perfectly – and Stewart might be also; I just don’t know too much about his attitude.

Finally, there’s gallons of optimism here. I’ve never seen Rockies fans this optimistic about an offseason. No one’s complaining about the moves we didn’t make, no ones crying about any position on the field. Most discussion here is who fills out the final bullpen spots, what the starting rotation order will be and when our young stud minor league pitchers will start contributing. I don’t spend time on any other Rockies forums looking at attitudes there, but here there’s optimism to spare, to the point that everyone’s anxious to get the season started so we can prove how good we can be.

I hope you continue posting here, and I don’t think poorly of you. Please don’t assume that because I look at the game differently than you I dislike you.

Are you a Mets or a Rockies fan?

I appreciate your post but being new to this sight, I haven’t seen any negativity towards the Rockies. I think everyone one is pumped and are expecting an even better Rockies team than last year. The pitching is stable. The lineup is strong with experienced backups and a lot of depth in the organization.

we’re glad you’re here

just know that we have a lot of exuberant commenters and sometimes you might find yourself against a wall – don’t take it as an attack. Too many people take things as attacks when they’re in the minority on a topic, myself included.

That would be sitting in Colt Stadium in 90 degree heat and 90% humidity while battling the most outrageous mosquitoes know to mankind. Colt Stadium was the temporary ball park that was the Colts home while the ’Dome was being built.

I grew up in the Houston area and lived and died with the Colt .45s/Astros. And Bob Aspromonte frustrated me to no end. You can’t imagine my glee when Doug Rader took over at 3rd base.

But at this time of the year every season, I was convinced the ’stros would make noise in the National League. Seldom happened, but I dreamed the same dream every spring.

Colt stadium sat there for years afterward and one week it was gone. Disassymbled and and moved to Hermasillo Mexico; and still in use today.
I heard all the horror stories. About disappearing baseballs in the fog; Free can of OFF night. Turkey Buzzards dive bombing the ladies in there fancy hats. The big stinking mudhole hole they couldn’t dig deep enough to set the piles for the Astrodome’s foudation. The source of those mosquitoes big enough to to have standing congress with a turkey flat footed! Jersey didn’t have them THAT big!
Aspro frustrated a lot of people. When you counted him out he’d come up big; and when you counted on him he’d stink. But he’d battle and battle and as bad as the ’stros were back then; they seemed to always win the last game of a series because they would wear out the bullpens, On a bad team; the guy who did that for you was clutch. Of course it really helped to have Grote or Bateman hitting behind him. They were good enough that they could not afford to ignore him.