Colorado Rockies: German Marquez is getting Coors’d

There’s one more note that I found interesting while researching this story. At Coors, he’s averaging just 88.4 pitchers per start. Away from Colorado’s capital he’s averaging 99.6. As documented above, he’s throwing the same amount of strikes, and he’s also throwing the same pitch mix in all the parks. Marquez even verified to me he isn’t intending to turn himself in a Jon Gray-esq pitcher that uses a curve on the road and a slider at home.

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Either Marquez is getting Coors’d in BABIP forcing Bud Black to goto the bullpen earlier or he may be getting tired quicker at Coors.

As well document altitude has a profound impact on sleeping and fatigue. Off of sheer observation of the pitch count numbers, and his ERA and strikeout splits second and third time through the order at Coors Field and away from it, there is a valid theory that he is being bitten by Coors Field’s altitude in more ways than just unlucky batted balls.

Once again this is not to say German Marquez has been bad because that is untrue and there are more numbers that suggest that there are fixable issues, issues nobody can control and random noise going on with Marquez than there is an indictment that he actually struggles at Coors Field.

What’s happened to Marquez is that there is small sample size, some poor luck and growing pains. And, most importantly, the fact that Marquez is now in a Colorado Rockies rotation that has undergone a transformation from rejects to rockstars.