The New Britain Rock Cats Are Going To Win Every Baseball Game Ever and You Can’t Stop Them

While the world crumbles around us at the major league level after an 11^th straight loss, the Rockies Double A affiliate has won 12 straight games and 23 of their last 26.

Before tonight’s game (that was supposed to be started by Yohan Flande), the New Britain Rock Cats are deserving of some praise. The brand new Rockies affiliate is the best team in the Eastern League by four games over 20-11 Altoona, hasn’t lost since April 29^th, and could possibly make a case for the best overall offense in the entire Minor Leagues. With Trevor Story, Tom Murphy, Tyler Massey, David Dahl, and Mike Tauchman splitting run producing duties every night (Story and Murphy taking the brunt), the Rock Cats can’t seem to stop scoring runs. But is it just a fun team to look at, or does this spell success for the Rockies future?

The 2017 class of prospects is set to be a fun one, this we already know. With Dahl, Story, Murphy, Raimel Tapia, Ryan McMahon and several others set to be in the majors by 2017 we seem to be staring the first potential golden age of Rockies prospects making an impact in the face. The success of the team from 2007-2010 aside, the class of 2017’s potential is why the Rockies may not have to go full rebuild in reconstructing this disaster of a 2015 campaign. But what does New Britain’s success mean for that excitement?

Well, tangibly, it doesn’t mean a lot. The Rock Cats being a successful AA team doesn’t mean the Rockies are more likely to be successful with those players, some of the guys they face aren’t going to be anywhere near as good as the guys they face two levels up.

But, intangibly, it seems reasonable to believe that a group of kids that have succeeded together at every level will bring with them a culture of success, a drive to win together.

Dahl especially, who continues his streak of being on ridiculously good teams (he was a part of that ridiculously good Asheville team a year ago). David may also be the best part about this squad because he hasn’t even gotten going yet. The stud Rockies outfielder may just now be finding his swing (he hit his second home run yesterday), so the fact is the Rock Cats offense could get even better.

Once the call ups start, and they will start, the team may not be the behemoth that it is currently. But the Rockies may be able to keep the molten core of this team together. Story and Murphy are destined for call ups soon and the two could arrive in Denver near the same time, combine that with Dahl possibly finding his swing at this level and you could see three major impact prospects off this team stick together for the rest of their pro careers.

The “but can they pitch?” detractors will still cry out for this farm to develop an impact pitcher, which is a valid criticism, but that doesn’t take away from a potentially large impact class of prospects that could fill five of the eight lineup slots for the next 5-10 years.

This class may be showing a sliver of its future potential in New Britain, making the Rock Cats a difficult affiliate to ignore.