Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 03:08 PM
It's a bit more of a longshot than last
season but I think we could see another Rockies push and just maybe
to the playoffs?
With the glut of good teams in the East
and Central divisions I doubt that the Rockies could get the wildcard
so they would have to go through the NL West.
At this time last season the Rockies
were 56-53 and 3.5 games back of the wildcard but had to jump over 5
other teams. This year in order to win the NL West they will have to
jump over just 2 teams but this season they are 3.5 games farther out
as they are currently 7 games behind the D-Backs with a record of
51-62. From this point on last season the Rockies went 33-20 (.623
win%) down the stretch to get into the tiebreaker game. So why do I
think the Rockies can make a legitimate playoff push, you ask? Well
it's simple, it all has to do with the schedule and health.
The Rockies remaining schedule is a
joke. First of all they play 56% of their remaining games at home
which is a big boost as they are 31-22 at home this season. Secondly
of their remaining 49 games they play a whooping 25 (51%!) of them
against easily the 3 worst teams in the NL in San Diego, San
Francisco and Washington. An important factor with all those teams is
that they cannot score to save their lives right now it will be a big
struggle against the raking Rockies (which i'll get to shortly). The
Rockies also have a combined 1... [More]