As Rockies fans live the nightmare of no baseball due to the coronavirus pandemic, let us all recall the dream season put up by Marvin Freeman in 1994.
The right-hander, then 31, was 10-2 that year to lead the National League with an .833 winning percentage and finish fourth in the Cy Young voting. Freeman’s 2.80 ERA still stands as the unofficial single-season club record (he didn’t meet the innings minimum due to the strike-shortened season) over Kyle Freeland’s 2.85 mark in 2018.
It was a career season for Freeman, who arrived in Colorado as a free agent after pitching out of the Atlanta bullpen for the previous four seasons.