Baseball Nation - Baseball Forum | MLB Baseball Forum | MLB Fan Forum - Colorado Rockies http://baseballnation.net/ Discuss about the Rockies here. en Sun, 19 May 2013 20:51:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://baseballnation.net/images/Take5/misc/rss.png Baseball Nation - Baseball Forum | MLB Baseball Forum | MLB Fan Forum - Colorado Rockies http://baseballnation.net/ No April Fluke for the Rockies http://baseballnation.net/showthread.php?7731-No-April-Fluke-for-the-Rockies&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 02:20:57 GMT Doing my April roundup in OPS+ & ERA+, it is two fairly accurate ballpark adjusted ratings.

Rockies after 16 games on the road and 12 at home.

NL Rockies 1st in OPS+ with 109=15pts better then league average

Now here is the surprise to me. The Rockies are tied for 2nd best ERA+ with a 125=23pts better then league average. Not bad when you consider Coors Field is figured in these stats.

BR link with clickable header for each stat in the NL.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2013.shtml ]]> Colorado Rockies Old Sweater http://baseballnation.net/showthread.php?7731-No-April-Fluke-for-the-Rockies <![CDATA[Wilin 'Baby Bull' Rosario]]> http://baseballnation.net/showthread.php?7703-Wilin-Baby-Bull-Rosario&goto=newpost Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:05:14 GMT ---Quote--- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/wilin-being-wilin--rockies-catcher-swinging-bat-with-ferocity-of-his-boyhood-idol-053451972.html ...
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Wilin(really Will-lean) being Wilin? Rockies catcher swinging bat with ferocity of his boyhood idol.

LOS ANGELES – Dante Bichette, the Colorado Rockies' rookie hitting coach, was endeavoring to explain how Wilin Rosario reminds him of Manny Ramirez, how innate bat speed meets God-granted power meets some other mystical denomination.

Rosario himself sat 20 feet away, rolling the handle of a bat from one hand to the other.

These are elastic conversations, given the length one must travel to see one of the great right-handed hitters of his generation – maybe the greatest before Miguel Cabrera came along – in a 24-year-old, 5-foot-11, 220-pound catcher whose hero growing up in Bonao, Dominican Republic was, indeed, Manny Ramirez.

No matter that the young, stubby catcher, in 155 big-league games, or what amounts to one big-league season, has 38 home runs, more than any catcher since his September 2011 debut. No matter that Rosario, batting .329 when the Rockies arrived near exhaustion (their flight was delayed several hours in Phoenix the night before and arrived at about 3 a.m. Monday morning) to Dodger Stadium on Monday, already had six home runs and 16 RBIs while serving as a member of the chorus to Troy Tulowitzki's and Carlos Gonzalez's leads.
I'll tell ya, if Rosario was playing for a large market team like the Dodgers or Yankees, he would be the talk of the town. That is okay though, baseball fans here in Colorado know what we have in the kid. Guy is strong, even strong man Cuddyer gives him his due on that. Guy use to get a 100 swings in a day at a rubber tire. He can also scoot for a catcher, which gets him in a little trouble, at times, on the basepaths. I do think he could give Tulo a run for his money in a 40 yard dash. ]]> Colorado Rockies Old Sweater http://baseballnation.net/showthread.php?7703-Wilin-Baby-Bull-Rosario