4 NL West players who slashed the Colorado Rockies in 2021

Slasher movies are always in season for a certain segment of the population. However, around Halloween, scary tales involving Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger get a bump in the “turn the lights down and watch this now” category.

Say “slash” to a baseball fan, however, and a different meaning to the word might pop to mind. According to the definition of “slash line” on MLB.com, “Slash line is a colloquial term used to represent a player’s batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. Those three stats are often referenced together in baseball media with forward slashes separating them, which is where the term slash line comes from.”

With Halloween just around the corner and it being a “slash” time of year, we thought now would be an interesting time to look back at one player from each of the four National League West rivals of the Colorado Rockies who put up some impressive slash lines against the Rockies in 2021.

The San Francisco Giants player who slashed the Colorado Rockies in 2021

San Francisco Giants — Buster Posey

2021 slash line against Colorado: .380/.446/.640 with an OPS of 1.086 (19-for-50 at the plate)

Career against Colorado: .339/.418/.568 with an OPS of .985 (555 at-bats)

We start with a player who has slashed the Rockies throughout his long career (he debuted in September, 2009). Posey had a solid age-34 season all around, but certainly found his stroke (as always) against Colorado.

Posey’s best overall game at the plate against any team in 2021 came against Colorado during a 12-0 win in San Francisco on April 26. Posey went 4-for-5 with a double, a homer, and 3 RBI. He also had three hits in a game against the Rockies on two separate occasions.

Is it any wonder we named one of the biggest Rockies killers of the past decade?

Los Angeles Dodgers — Corey Seager

2021 slash line against Colorado: .439/.531/.610 with OPS of 1.140 (18-for-41 at the plate)

Career against Colorado: .322/.403/.547 with an OPS of .950 (276 at-bats)

Sure, we could have put a few Dodgers into this category, but Seager put up a monster year against the Rockies that stood out in a big way.

Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager started off hot against the Colorado Rockies in 2021

Seager began the season by going 8-for-12 against the Rockies in the opening three-game series at Coors Field, then went 2-for-3 versus Colorado pitching the next time the teams met. A 10-for-15 stretch at the plate is hard to beat, so Rockies fans can at least take solace in the fact that Seager cooled off against Colorado (8-for-26) the rest of the campaign (if you can really call that ‘cooling off’).

There is plenty of talk about where Seager may head after this season as he joins Trevor Story in an impressive list of free agent shortstops. Rockies fans can only hope that Seager lands somewhere outside of the NL West.

Just a thought though … he sure would look good in purple pinstripes, wouldn’t he?

San Diego Padres — Jake Cronenworth

2021 slash line against Colorado: .368/.419/.735 with an OPS of 1.154 (25-for-68 at the plate)

Career against Colorado: .351/.402/.711 with an OPS of 1.113 (97 at-bats)

Move over, Wil Myers. There’s a new terror lurking for the Colorado Rockies in San Diego.

Cronenworth debuted to open the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and has quickly found that he likes to hit against the Rockies in his very young career.

Jake Cronenworth of the San Diego Padres flashed plenty of power against the Colorado Rockies in 2021

Cronenworth blasted five homers against the Rockies this season, including an eighth-inning, two-run shot off Colorado reliever Daniel Bard that cemented a 3-0 Padres win in San Diego on July 29. The win would put the Padres at 61-45 for the season before plummeting to the earth the final two full months of the year and finishing with a 79-83 mark.

While the Padres struggled against the Rockies in 2021 (going 8-11), Cronenworth certainly did not. And while names like Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., and Myers may draw more eyerolls from Colorado fans, it was Cronenworth who did the damage last season.