2 Teams Rockies fans should be rooting for and 2 they should not in the playoffs

The Rockies have not made the postseason since 2018 when they were swept 3-0 by the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLDS.

For the fifth straight year, Colorado fans will be forced to watch the MLB Postseason at home and will be forced to find a team to root for.

This year's MLB Postseason is filled will unqiue storylines that has caught the attention of every baseball fan like the Cinderella storylines of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles. Or the birth of a dynasty that is the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves or the continued dominance that is the Houston Astros. Who could also not forget the underdog storyline that is the Minnesota Twins who were looked as more of an afterthought in the NL Wild Card earlier this week.

With all these great storylines in the MLB Postseason, I decided to take a look at which teams Rockies fans should be rooting for.

1. Root for the Baltimore Orioles

This year, the Baltimore Orioles might've been the best feel good story that was the 2023 MLB season.

Coming into the year, the Orioles were at best considered a Wild Card contender as they bolstered a roster full of young players like Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson and Austin Hays while playing in one of the most competitive divisions in baseball.

However, Baltimore showed Resiliency throughout the season and continued to fight, finishing with the second-best record in the MLB (101-61) just behind the Atlanta Braves.

Before 2022, the Orioles were on a five-year stretch like the Rockies where they failed to put together a season record that was above .500. From 2016-2021, the Orioles were consistently finishing fourth or fifth in the division and consistently were the team that was considered an easy win against opponents.

This story probably sounds all to well familiar for Rockies fans as the Rockies have been in the same position over the past five years. If there is one fanbase that can relate the most to the pain Rockies fans have endured during this stretch, it would be Baltimore.

3. Root for the Texas Rangers

For some Rockies fans, the Texas Rangers might've been their first love when it came to baseball. 30 years ago, baseball was nonexistent in Colorado which meant fans would have to find someone to root for.

For many, that team was likely the Rangers.

It's no secret that Colorado continues to remain a transplant state, as American's continue to move here, especially from California and Texas.

Like the Orioles and Rockies, the Rangers are another team that caught many by surprise this year as they exceeded all expectations by making the postseason this year despite finishing last year with a 68-94 record and turning it into a 90-72 season in 2023.

With young players like Jonah Heim and Nathaniel Lowe, it becomes easy to root for the Rangers. Especially when you get to see on the best MLB Post Season players like Corey Seager shine on one of the biggest stages of all.

With a few losing seasons that were focused on rebuilding a farm system, developing young prospects and singing a few key free agents like Seager and Marcus Semien, the Rangers are now in position to compete for a World Series for a long time giving Rockies fans a hope of what kind of future they could have in a few years once their farm system starts to reach the MLB level.

4. Team to not root for: Houston Astros

Okay lets be honest, we all still have a sour taste in our mouth from 2017.

In 2017, the Houston Astros were caught cheating throughout the season by banging on trash cans in the dugout to signal what pitches were coming for batters, giving them a advantage which led to them winning a World Series in 2017. Their was also the claim of Jose Altuve wearing a buzzer on his chest against the New York Yankees in ALCS which helped him give him an advantage on knowing what kind of pitches were coming his way.

Despite winning last year's World Series fairly, there's no way baseball fans are forgetting about the 2017 World Series and they probably wont for a long time until all the players that were in the Astros organization at the time are retired.

Without a doubt Houston has become a villain in baseball and is probably the one team nobody want's to see win it all.

Before this season when it was announced all 30 MLB teams would play each other, the Rockies and Astros would meet once a year for an interleague game that developed into it's own rivalry during the 2010's.

With the cheating allegations and the development of a rivalry in the 2010's, it should be without a doubt Rockies fans will be rooting against the Houston Astros this post season.