Rox Pile » Dexter Fowler http://roxpile.com A Colorado Rockies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:13:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Top 10 Rockies Offensive Performances of 2011 http://roxpile.com/2011/09/20/top-10-rockies-offensive-performances-of-2011/ http://roxpile.com/2011/09/20/top-10-rockies-offensive-performances-of-2011/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:31:23 +0000 Michelle Hoag http://roxpile.com/?p=2993 The Rockies have always been an offensively proficient team. The overlap of Larry Walker and Todd Helton makes that an indisputable statement, even while more mediocre players have occasionally filled out the roster. Coors Field is a hitter’s park, and generally speaking the scouting and development department has done a perfectly adequate job finding good hitters. So we expect our team to score runs. Still, excellence deserves recognition. On top of that, the Rockies have not had an especially excellent year. That makes those performances worthy of recognition stand out even more.

Note: In some ways this was even more challenging than selecting 10 pitching performances, since a hitter rarely owns a game the way a pitcher does. I had to eliminate many quality games simply because the individual hitter didn’t make an impact on the outcome. That’s unfair. It’s also unfair that Troy Tulowitzki will get no MVP consideration since his team sucked this season. If you want fair, baseball probably isn’t for you. … [visit site to read more]

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It didn’t matter.

The Rockies’ lone run before the eighth inning came off the bat of Troy Tulowitzki in the form of a solo home run to left field. A good sign for Tulo … [visit site to read more]

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