Colorado Rockies: This is their perfect lineup for the 2021 season

Raimel Tapia would leadoff and play left field for the Rockies.

Leading off for the Rockies would be Raimel Tapia and he would play left field. Tapia did make some strides in 2020 after a slow start to the season. He hit .321/.369/.402 with an OPS+ of 97.

Ideally, the slugging percentage would be much higher, even if he is leading off. He had 59 hits in 2020 and only 11 were extra-base hits. Even if he could become a doubles machine, hitting leadoff for at least once a game, with his speed, the Rockies could easily score at least one run in those innings. The Rockies would, ideally, like if he gets more walks too.

According to StatCast, Tapia was in the bottom seven percent (or worse) in the league in barrel percentage (two percent), exit velocity, and expected slugging percentage so squaring up the ball more will be key as well and it will likely lead to Tapia getting more extra-base hits.

Defensively, he was much better in 2020 compared to previous seasons as he was above average in Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) whereas he was well below league average in previous seasons.

In other words, like most of the Rockies players, Tapia has taken some strides to become a solid MLB regular player, but now, he needs to keep developing, not maintain or regress.