Colorado Rockies: 2 reasons to watch the final 3 weeks

The end of the not-so-memorable 2021 Colorado Rockies season is almost here. There has been little to be excited about throughout the summer with a fourth-place finish in the NL West inevitable. No standout performances to be really excited about, or a surprise breakout season by a rookie (no offense, Connor Joe), or even a blockbuster trade at the deadline to give hope for the future.

So as many fans prepare to trade in their Rockies’ gear for Denver Broncos’ orange and blue or whatever NFL team they happen to root for this fall, there are still a couple of reasons to continue to tune into the final three weeks of the Rockies’ season.

Two reasons to track the rest of the Colorado Rockies season

Trevor Story’s final games in a Rockies’ uniform

Unless something drastically unexpected happens over the winter, the Rockies’ shortstop for the last six seasons will call somewhere else home besides at the corner of 20th and Blake.

From the moment Story burst onto the scene in 2016 by hitting a MLB-record four home runs in his first four games, Rockies’ fans fell in love with the speedy, power-hitting and slick-fielding shortstop from Texas.

He has provided many great memories of concourse-reaching home runs, jaw-dropping defensive plays, and, more recently, a solid performance in the 2021 Home Run Derby at Coors Field. He helped lead to Rockies to its only consecutive playoff appearances in 2018 and 2019, but his time in Denver is likely coming to an end. His departure will surely be felt, especially when the Rockies receive a mere compensation draft pick when he signs elsewhere.

The chase for the historic home/road split

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This season, the Rockies have been really good at home with a current record of 45-27 (.625).  However, for as good as they have been at home, they have been just as bad if not worse on the road with a record of 19-50 (.275). That is a winning percentage difference of .350.

To put that into perspective, if the Rockies were to have played all 162 games at home, they would be on pace to win 101 games. On the reverse side, if all games were played away from Coors Field, they would be on pace to lose 117 games.

The current record is held by the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics, a team that had a home/road split difference of .356.

The schedule for the final three weeks has the Rockies with some tough home series against both the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants and also the season series finale at the MLB-worst Arizona Diamondbacks, so this record could be decided on the last day of the season.