I’m not here to rain on the Rockies’ early-season victory parade.
And no, I’m not panicking over a few losses or a rough patch in the road.
As Purple Row blogger Eric Garcia McKinley noted in his Saturday piece, the Rockies are going to struggle in 2017, something even the best teams experience over the course of a long season. He also points out that the mighty 2016 Cubs, winners of 103 regular-season games and the World Series, went 4-11 from June 25 through July 9.
But I’m not about to don purple-colored glasses either, because I see red flags on the Rockies’ horizon, and keeping pace with Diamondbacks, and especially the Dodgers, in the wild, wild, National League West is going to be difficult for them.