As the old adage goes, you can’t win a championship in May, but you can lose it. This has been repeated more than once this year, an up-and-down season for the Rockies that has been defined by inconsistency. Well they’re not alone. Will Leitch gives us his six teams who are performing below expectations and are running out of time to remain relevant in 2019, and the Rockies are smack-dab in the middle.
Leitch offers two big reasons the Rockies are in this position. 1) Their starting rotation, which has carried them to two Postseason berths the past two years, has been a let down thus far—Kyle Freeland in particular.