The Colorado Rockies made the playoffs in 2019. They made the playoffs in 2018. They are in a position to make the playoffs again in 2020. And yet we are still subjected to preview content that assumes the Rockies have just been mashing the ball on offense all these years and getting by with average-to-bad pitching.
There are 30 MLB teams. I get it. There isn’t time to watch every team, and to make up that ground you look at stats. Even with that context established, it’s still hard to read things like “the Rockies pitching staff leaves something to be desired” and reconcile that with the actual story of how the Rockies made the playoffs last year or how they’re in a position to win this year.