Unfortunately this isn’t the only Rockies pitcher on this list who passed too soon. With the Rockies Joe Kennedy was part of a young promising pitching core in the early 2000s. While it didn’t work out, Jason Jennings, Shawn Chacon and Kennedy gave this city hope there could be a new era of pitching at Coors Field. A big part of that was Kennedy who surprised a lot of people coming over from Tampa Bay where he went 3-12 and with a 6.13 ERA eventually being converted into a reliever.
In 2004 though he turned everything around in the most unlikely place.