Simply put, the Colorado Rockies offense has been 17 precent worse than league average and is only bottomed by Miami.
Similar things could be said about the prior two season’s offensive groups with wRC+ in the mid-80s and both units were solid enough to eek the Rockies into the postseason. So are those few percentage points really the difference or are the Rockies maybe even worse offensively than previously thought?
Those questions might be too big to tackle in this story.
A solid stat that gives an answer to, the “are-the-Rockies-even-this-bad-on-offense-despite-the-fact-that-they’ll-probably-lead-the-league-in-runs-scored-for-the-28th-straight-year-because-they-play-at-Coors-” question is barrel rate.