Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 27, 2008
Watch Out for the Rockies
Ubaldo Jimenez

Ubaldo Jimenez holds a 2.04 ERA in July.
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Colorado defeated Cincinnati Saturday night for their fourth win in a row and their eighth in their last nine games. In every win they've allowed three runs or less. That's balanced by a 16 run loss to the Dodgers. Still, even with that high score, Colorado has allowed just 32 runs over the nine game stretch.

That's the story of the whole month, too. The Rockies allowed three runs or less in 14 of their 22 games, helping them to a 15-7 record. The team ERA for the month, however, is 4.71, due to 54 of their runs allowed coming in four games.

The starting staff posts a 4.48 ERA for the month, but again, four bad starts accounts for the high level. Overall, the staff is walking less than three batters per nine innings and allowing just 17.4 home runs per 200 innings. The Rockies pitching is now solid. Just six games out of the lead in a weak division, the Rockies may want to look for a bat that helps now if they trade away some pitching.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:29 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
Comments

The Rockies bats have been propelling them, and while their pitching has been good, they have so few competent starters that they're looking to spot start someone on Monday instead of sending out Glendon Rusch. Dealing for a bat would be a terrible move - if they really wanted to act, they would deal for an arm.

Posted by: onholliday at July 27, 2008 10:34 AM

Yeah, a bat is pretty much the last thing in the world the Rockies need

Posted by: Kels at July 27, 2008 11:24 AM
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