Another year is here and another season is on the horizon.
While hope certainly springs eternal, it’s also important to adjust the hope settings to somewhere between “not as bad as the 2024 White Sox” and playoff contention. Last year, I turned to Clint Hurdle’s advice as my expectations guide, lowering the bar so that expectations weren’t outrageously unfair and didn’t turn to resentments. I’m not sure it helped to expect the Rockies to be bad when they went on to lose over 100 games, again.
Even five wins more than 2023 would have led to a 64-98 mark that at least would have felt a little better than the actual record of 61-101.