Friday, January 17, 2025

Newsletter Excerpt, January 17, 2025 -- "The '93 Expansion Teams"

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It feels strange to praise the Rockies for anything, but they have done a pretty good job in recent seasons of burping up major league position players. Ezequiel Tovar and Brenton Doyle are good to plus defenders with middling bats, joining Ryan McMahon and the since non-tendered Brendan Rodgers also fitting that description. It is not easy to have a good defensive team playing at altitude, but the Rockies were 11th in Outs Above Average. There are similarities to the 2017-18 playoff teams that were also good defensively thanks to a homegrown core. Throw in a lot of average and average-minus starting pitchers, and across a decade or so, the Rockies have produced more players than you might think.