Notes on 100

100 L’s

Well, they did it. After not having a single 100 loss season for 30 seasons of baseball, the Rockies have now had three in a row. The bottom has fallen out on a bad development and analysis program, the club now finds itself adrift as possibly the worst run organization in American sports. We sit here now the possibility of 120 losses still looming and no real short term future to be excited about. But I and many others have written about that non-stop all year. The Rockies process is fundamentally broken, we should expect more of these 100 L seasons to come. But let’s talk about this year and the 100 L’s we’ve experienced together. These are Notes On A Murder: The 2025 Rockies.

Eight Game Losing Streaks, Four Of Them

The Rockies have not lost MORE than eight games in a row all season BUT they have lost eight in a row four times. Including, comically, a stretch from April 11 to April 20 which was broken by a win in the second half of a double header on April 20 and then immediately followed by eight straight losses from April 22 to April 29. The Rockies lost 16 of 17 in April and finished the month 5-25. But it could’ve been worse.

Losing by as much as you possibly can

The Rockies have lost 39 times by five or more runs. Their run differential is -362 which is the worst since the 1891 Washington Statesmen. The hapless Washington team still went 44-91, which is better than the Rockies were at 135 games. 1891, you might recall, is before baseball reached it’s “Modern Era” so the league was in flux the entire season. The short lived “Player’s League” disbanded the offseason prior, the league cancelled it’s post season due to a contract dispute between the American Association and the National League. All to say, the Statesmen were playing in a much different version of baseball than the Rockies both on the field and off of it.

On top of that, the Rockies have lost by double digits seven times, with a 21-0 loss to San Diego as the flag bearer there. They’ve also lost 18-0 and 20-1 if you’re looking for 18 and 19 run losses to look at in addition to a 21 run loss.

The Rockies haven’t just lost to teams, they’ve asked how many they can lose by.

A “Better” Second Half

You’ll probably hear the words “the Rockies looked better in the second half” a lot this offseason. For a whole host of reasons. Maybe it’ll be to justify keeping the current coaching staff, maybe it’ll be to praise Walker Monfort’s management or something. They’re not wrong to say that, it’s technically correct. Since the end of the All-Star break the Rockies are a middling 17-26, just 9 games under .500. Which is much better than the .229 win percentage they carried up TO the All-Star Game. It’s this play that will keep the Rockies out of the most losses of all time. But is it good? Is it worth keeping anyone involved with this horrifying product? A .395 win percentage like the Rockies have carried since the middle of July is still only a 64 win pace. You’re still 64-98 if you play like this all year. It’s bad shit, brother. You can’t escape it.

So no you should not listen to the people that tell you they “played better”. They still sucked, but maybe just in the normal way they would’ve sucked if they hadn’t completely quit on the first 50 or so games.

Five Interleague Sweeps

The Rockies still have six interleague games to go, against the Angels and Mariners, but currently sit with an ungodly 10-32 number in those games so far. In those 32 losses, 15 have come from just five teams that swept them. Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Texas, and Toronto all didn’t allow the Rockies to scratch a victory. A miserable margin of defeat against some decent AL competition.

36 Blown Leads, 27 Comebacks

27 of the Rockies 39 wins so far they have had to come from behind, which is both admirable and funny that they’ve only led wire to wire 12 times in 139 games. On top of that, they’ve blown a lead 36 teams. That’s three times as much as they’ve won a game in which they never trailed. Incredible.

100 losses didn’t seem inevitable this year. I thought they could honestly push for 70 wins. Now, here we are. And I don’t know that they avoid 100 losses next year. Everything in the organization is broken from top to bottom. If they keep Schmidt, Schaeffer, or whoever from this ship of fools (that is on fire) then it’s obvious the same guys are still in charge and making the same decisions. Walker is at the wheel though, let’s see what he’s got to pull the car off the wall.

Connor’s Guys Update, An Update on Connor’s Minor League Guys of Note

Connor’s Guys will be an update on the Guys I want to follow through the Rockies minor league system. This won’t necessarily be the best prospects, don’t expect a top-100 guy here, but guys I find interesting. Every now and then we’ll add a new guy when I spot someone putting up an interesting line or having a unique profile to look into. Currently, Connor’s Guys are all pitchers. Sean Sullivan (AA), Welinton Herrera (AA), Brody Brecht (A), and Connor Van Scoyoc (AAA)

Look at that beautiful Van Scoyoc line. Zeroes all the way down. That’s what we like to see. None of this fancy schmancy strikeout chasing. Just balls into gloves. Every time. CVS Method is back in action as we wind down the MILB season.

On the other hand, Brody…no more of those walks please.

Rafael Devers vs. Kyle Freeland

Last night, Rafael Devers and Kyle Freeland got into a kerfuffle. See it here

It looks like Kyle got a little annoyed by how much Devers wanted to watch that home run. Fair on both sides. If I hit the ball that hard, I’d want to watch it too. But if I was Kyle Freeland, on a 99 loss team just looking to finish the stretch, I’d probably be upset about a guy taking a bit of a victory lap off of me. These are all professionals of course, so it’s really more on Kyle to get over it. But I get it.

I can’t tell what was said but if I had to guess, Kyle said “hey don’t watch that homer” and Rafael replied “MGK sucks dude, his new song is complete trash.” And Kyle said “that’s my friend dude, don’t you see my instagram likes?” And Rafael said something about how garbage the Misery Business cover was. Then the benches got involved.

Bench clearing is so funny to me. It’s really a baseball (and sometimes basketball) only problem. Football the benches clear and you’ve got a full scale riot on your hands, hockey they specifically built a culture on never having that happen. But baseball, the second someone gets mad they basically all pile over the guardrail and open the bullpen doors. It’s preposterous. You have like 50 guys out there, plus coaches, all grabbing each other’s jerseys saying things about MGK’s music. Nothing like it.

Well, 100 losses down.

23 to go…