The Rockies Are The WORST Team In MLB History
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Hello and welcome to my channel! In this video, I go over the Colorado Rockies history, and why they are the WORST Team In Baseball... with an awful ownership.. that REFUSES to step down.
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Title: The Rockies Are The WORST Team In MLB History
By: Purely Baseball
Just a bit of a disclaimer as some are getting confused
The video title was on an organizational stand point with history. Not the 2023 Rockies in specific lol
"The Rockies are the worst FRANCHISE in MLB history!"
Fire Bud Black!
Get rid of Freeland and Bryant
...all of them are not earning their massive paychecks!
...They all should at least give back half their salaries!
...I would like Kroenke Sports to buy the Rockies. The Monforts are horrible owners. High team payroll, but money is spent poorly.
...Kroenke Sports puts the right people and players in place to win Super Bowls, Stanley Cups and NBA titles.
....That being said, the Rockies will never be a true contender. The elite MLB pitchers want nothing to do with making a career pitching at 5,280 feet. Arms and ERAs get destroyed at high altitude. Just look at the free agent signings of the best free agent pitchers the last 20 years. They all avoid Colorado like the plague. And I don't blame them one bit. A few decent names tried to pitch here in the past, they all got roasted.
...And it is a mental mind!@#$% constantly having to switch playing at 5,280 and then going on the road and playing at near sea level elevation. It is very difficult for the players to adjust.
Denverite here, the attendance will always be high which means there's no incentive to spend money to improve the on-field product. The Rockies have a top-tier ballpark but garbage-tier ownership.
Just wanna point out the Rockies never seem to know who to pay. It's mind boggling to me that they let LeMahieu walk for a 2/24 contract, but signed Kris Bryant to 7/182. It literally wouldn't have hurt to re-sign LeMahieu to such a bargain deal, but they let him walk and watched him hit like a robot on a contract far cheaper than the one they ended up giving Kris Bryant, who has been the definition of mid, which was obviously the downside. They're logic is confusing to me.
Ian Desmond is hiding in the shadows, counting his cash and laughing behind that Covid mask.
The thing with Kris is that he’s such a good player. It pains me to see him today. As a Cubs fan, he’s the best 3B of all time we had for those few years. Injuries yes, but good god. He’s an MVP and All star. His regression has been just sad.
This has been a thing since the Matt Holliday times. They get cheap, don’t wanna pay anybody, and end up trading them to a great team and they usually get rings elsewhere
The attendance is high because that place is a giant party. I visited as a fan of an away team and drinking up at the rooftop bar was awesome. $4 beers with a great view is hard to beat. I have to imagine a larger than average percentage of their attendance is from visiting team's fans.
going to rockies games is so fun if youre a fan of the other team
Yeah it's pretty genius on their part. You don't go to Coors to watch the Rockies. You go to Coors to get drunk and hit the rooftop bar.
It’s a great time! The breweries in walking distance do help lol.
All Denver sports are surprisingly great experiences. Not a hockey guy, went to an AVs game and it’s probably the most fun sports experience I’ve had outside NCAA football. Great sports town.
Fully agree. It’s the biggest bar in Denver 😂. I get my hopes up every offseason. Not this year.
A good fan experience = positive attendance? What a concept
Monfort is single handily the worst owner in mlb history. Period
No, that would be Brad Corbett.
No Arte Moreno, he waisted Trouts entire Career
Nahh hold your beer. Bob Nutting says.😢😢-Pirates Fan
Id say either Monfort or John Fischer are the biggest pieces of shit ownerships
I live in Denver, attend about a dozen games a year. No matter how bad the product on the field is, people will ALWAYS go to Coors Field. At the end of the day, I just think we're happy to have baseball. And Im A Mets fan, I know pain.
I grew up going to Rockies games, and it sucks because we’ve had so many good players and we just trade them away for fucking nothing
You trade for hope
It just doesn’t last long
Nuggets did the same thing for many years and yet we won our first championship last year.
As a Diamondbacks fan I've always had respect for the Rockies. When they're good they give me another team to watch if the Dbacks aren't doing so hot. Always love when those 2 play in Colorado. Hopefully the Rockies get things figured out so they can be a threat again. Arenado and Blackmon were a scary duo.
The Rockies were quite a fun rival for the snakes back in the late 90s to early 2000s; Larry Walker..Dante Bichette..Todd Helton etc
Helton, Walker, Castilla, Bichette, Galarraga, Arenado, what a shame....
Tulowitzki had some good years there too, sadly after he got traded to Toronto he really couldn’t stay healthy and had to retire at 35. If he could’ve stayed healthy, he might still be playing now as he’s currently 39.
Carlos Gonzalez too same thing with Ubadlo Jimenez however you spelled his first name edit I spelled his name right
They had bichette??
Or is that old man bichette
@@krwblue Dante Bichette
Attendance is because first if all it’s Denver, it’s usual. Also I’d like to say screw the whole Montfort ownership it’s getting ridiculous.
2010 Ubaldo Jimenez is the greatest performance by a Rockies player at any position in the team’s history. Better than any Walker or Helton season. He should have been the unanimous cy young winner.
As a rockies fan... it sucks... I still HOPE... but the the monforts need to sell. Too loyal of a fanbase to be losers every. Single. Year. We've been rebuilding since 2008
As someone who lived in Denver from 2004-2014 and has been to more games at Coors than I can count, I can safely say that the Rockies are the only major team from there that I have no love for. The Broncos, Nuggets and Avs are all my teams for their respective sports as I got into each of those while I lived there. Growing up however I was always torn between these guys and the Dodgers for my MLB team as the Dodgers were my original home team when I started caring for the game before living in Denver. After the Arenado trade with St. Louis a few years back though, I can safely say that I completely cut all ties with this garbage franchise. Most of the time I feel like the MLB would be so much better off without these clowns existing at all.
Coors is a top 5 venue in the MLB for me, but the on field performance from the home owners leaves A LOT to be desired year in and out, and will continue to do so for many years to come at the rate they're going.
They've been to the World Series, you can't take the title of worst team in all of sports from my Mariners, it's all we have.
😂 Your right.. my bad for stealing the thunder of the Mariners
Dispite them being bad, this team is super nostalgic to me. I lived in Colorado when I was young and literally had field trips to Coors Field. I specifically remember them winning against the Padres if I remember back in 2016. Coors field and its surroundings is a liminal space to me.
Agreed with the comments about Coors being a party. My friends don't know anything about baseball and go to more games than me.
On top of that it sucks, because I feel like we have a good group of young guys and prospects coming up that are just going to leave after their rookie deals or get traded away. I like to say that we're basically a Quadruple-A team. We're just a stop for rising guys before they go to the real MLB, and we're where old or washed up guys (Morneau, Daniel Murphy, Bryant) come to play.
As for pitching, that's not going to get fixed unless we have a group of guys that just understand that they're going to have a 3.00+ ERA but maybe they'll get wins if our bats get hot. That are we just need every single guy to throw 98+ with a good changeup, because the air is too thin to create the friction that is needed for breaking balls and movement pitches.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's only 3 options to somehow winning a series and I don't see any of them happening;
a. They sell the team and get a competent owner that wants to pay to play -- they wont -_-
b. we go on a cinderella run like we did in 2007
c. somehow we relocate to a new city at sea level and can actually attract pitchers
Sorry for the rant. I just love/hate this team too much lol
At least they fleeced Cleveland for Nolan Jones. Other than prospects, that’s probably the only bright spot for the Rockies at this point.
2:00 - LeMahieu became a Yankee in January of 2019, not after the season
As a person who lives in Denver and goes to games frequently nobody is actually a Rockies fan people are either away fans or people with very cheap tickets
I didn’t know they had more nl pennants than national league west titles
Colorado native here I find it sad because when the avalanche won the Stanley Cup a couple years ago, they played the game at Coors field on the big screen how embarrassing for the Rockies I love the Rockies, but we need new management and better players. I don’t know who’s on the team anymore.
Denver CO native here and even if they suck they still get decent attendance because of COORS FIELD. From the tourist to natives it’s a pretty cool venue especially at sunset with the mountains in the background. Anytime the Dodgers, Red sox or Yankees(rare) come to Denver it looks like the Rockies are the away team.
It pains me to see Kris Bryant on the Rox. As a life long Cubs fan, Kris Bryant was the best 3B we ever saw play at Wrigley and we got Ron Santo who’s a HOF. He was a super star no doubt. 2015-2017. 😢
Seems like a lifetime ago that RockTober happened, and when they were competing for the West more consistently.
It makes no sense, Denver is a true power city in America, and considering the Nuggets are champions now, you'd think that they would like to capitalize on it. The crazy thing is I don't think they're that far off of having a really good team, they have one of the best outfields in baseball, they have a criminally underrated third baseman, I mean... They have a great baseline, and they just aren't doing anything positive at all. The growing stars on their team will just get tired of losing and go to a team that will pay them.
The other big problem is that division. Gotta have some serious capital to compete against LA, SF, SD, and heck now even PHX.
@@BoJackHorseman_eatshay I guess I'm surprised Denver doesn't have it.
@@BoJackHorseman_eatshayThe Rays have an insanely low payroll, but are able to consistently compete with and defeat the Yankees and Red Sox. You just have to spend the money smartly and invest in talent.
I stand corrected; your are indeed 100% right. I should have said with garbage management they need more money. Rays' may just be the best run team in US sports.@@moonjelly5
The Avalanche are still pretty solid as well with them winning their championship a couple years ago. Even the Broncos are mediocre and have somewhat of a good future ahead of them unlike the Rockies that have none at all
Damn that sucks... I love the state of Colorado. The Rockies have had some amazing position players such of Larry walker, etc. But even when they go out and overspend on what was the years top free agent pitcher in Mike Hampton back in the early 2000's, then they were stuck getting #5 in the rotation production out of the number #1 spot. Is there any pitchers have a decent amount of starts there & a sub 3 Era? Batters prob salivating at the thought of playing 81 games qt coors field while the pitchers balls are hiding in their throat somewhere.
Another thing to point out is that when players like Jurickson Profar performs much better than when he was in Colorado, tells you a lot of how terrible the Rockies organization is at developing players
Their stadium is nice and attracts a lot of people but if they want to get serious about winning they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers. But that’s probably never gonna happen since they rake in money with Coors Field. It’s going to continue to be really tough for them to develop pitching with that stadium
You'd need more than a new stadium but a new city and that just won't fly, doesn't matter where you build in Denver it's still a mile high, the problem is the altitude, but while that's a setback and would make getting pitching more difficult, ownership that actually cares would still be able to Crack through the different pitch physics for some seasons.
You wrote, "they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers" but the Rockies can't change the altitude of Denver.
@@HighpointerGeocacher It's not the stadium or the altitude. Visiting pitchers come in here and dominate. The Rockies, CORRECTION, the Montfort's, can't find their ass with both hands when it comes to getting a good pitching staff. In general, those two can't find their ass with both hands!!
As a Colorado sports fan I cannot explain enough how massive it is that we have the Avs and the Nuggets. In the past, the Broncos were at least a perennial playoff team with a lot of early outs. The moves they've made in the past few years have been on par with the Rockies ineptitude, but at least they're going out and trying/spending the money. Rockies fans need to pull an opposite of the A's move and have a real boycott. From personal experience, Coors field is absolutely amazing. It's essentially become the biggest bar in Denver. Cheap seats, reasonably priced drinks and a super fun atmosphere. The only problem is that the product on the field is and will continue to be absolutely atrocious.
Edit just for fun: the excuse for the lack of pitching that "nobody wants to come pitch in Denver" or "no pitcher can be successful in Denver" is nonsense. Adam Ottavino made a living off of his slider which supposedly isn't supposed to work very well in Denver. He was great. What did we do? Let him walk without even offering him a deal
They've played in a world series. Conversation over. Mariners have to be the most pathetic sports franchise of all time.
They will never get pitching. Monforts only wanna make coors field a party. Been sadly hoping for something good since sitting in the stands watching Todd Helton and Larry Walker carry this team on their backs for nothing. They pay people like Desmond and Bryant to make it LOOK like they're trying. Gave up my Fandom this year. They will never do anything while the Monforts are in charge.
They let DJ walk because they thought he wanted too much money. They signed Daniel Murphy for the SAME amount DJ wanted in the offseason to play 2nd base, who wasn't nearly as good as DJ.
Makes sense...
Um the monforts werent the original onwers. They may have been minority owners but Jerry McMorris was the original owner and he gave control over to the Monforts in the mid 00's Charlie Monfort was the main guy at first but in 2013 he stepped back giving his brother Dick the spotlight. Also the original rockies ownership fell apart before the team even played a game. Monus and Antonucci were the guys that got everything off the ground from the stadium to the name and look of the franchise. But before a game was even played Monus was indicted for imbezzelling money with his company Phar-Mor and was forced to sell his ownership stake. McMorris with a partner in Oren Benton and Charlie Monfort would buy the rockies prior to their first game. Dick would come into the picture in 1997.
You seem to have forgotten the 1962 NY Mets. At 40-120 and 60+ games out of 1st, they are hard to top!
No absolutely, awful team. But I meant the organization as a whole, not the specific 2023/2024 Rockies
I believe a big component to the nado trade to STL was he told them he wanted to go the cardinals so ownership decided to give their star 3rd basemen that wish since they couldnt fully build a competent team around him
Ownership is garbage, just get trash for pitching and expect to win, it's just a open roster for the highest bidding team to take from, because no matter what that trash stadium sells out because of visiting teams
The KB trade hurts me as a Cubs fan. Scott Boras needs his own video.
Btw Cal has a below 4 era so he did rebound well, and Chase Dollander is a really good pitching prospect, but you were right about the rest, I hate Dick Monfort with a passion and he makes our life's suck. I go to games to watch players like Nolan, Tovar, Charlie, and McMahon and support them, not Dick Monfort, SELL THE TEAM!!
The location of this team will force them out at some point I would think right? The players must develop two different playing styles for home games and away. Something that is far too difficult to do any a reasonable amount of time if at all. The Rockies are just screwed for life as long as they play hundreds to thousands of feet higher than the rest of the MLB players who dont need to adapt to playing half a season in a completely different geographical environment
I don’t think it changes hitters approach at all. Pitchers definitely, but they have to adjust to each park really kind of anyway, so I don’t see it as a problem.
Even their early draft picks have struggled… Gabriel Hughes, Zac Veen, Jaden Hill all look like lost causes at the moment
Ownership is trash
They traded Arenado to the Cardinals because they didn't want to trade him to the Dodgers. The Cardinals really didn't even need to offer what they did, they were getting him to keep him out of LA.
Let’s go guys! Build the team and get them confident! Once you do this fans and everything well fall into place.
It’s absolutely insane how random their moves are. Trading Arenado, letting Story walk, and signing Bryant soon after. As a dbacks fan, I thought they would come back quicker but clearly that isn’t the case lol. I still say Artie is the worst owner in baseball though. At least the Rockies owner traded Arenado lol.
they need to draft pitching in the first 5 rounds every year because pitching is always their problem. you can take hitters off the scrap heap and they can turn their carrers around there. but you need lots of depth at pitching because you will never have a cy young pitcher in Colorado
The StLous Browns are the worst franchise in MLB history.
The Rockies began in 1993. They went to the WS in 2007. Teams that have not been to a WS since 1993 are the Twins, As, Reds, Orioles, Brewers and Pirates. The Mariners have never been to a WS.
Yes, the Rockies and Mariners have never won a WS but neither have the Padres, Mariners and Rays.
The Tigers haven’t won a WS since 1984. The Pirates have not been to a WS since 1979. The Indians haven’t won a WS since 1949.
They will never have a great pitching staff because they are in coors. Why would a dominate big name ace go there? They could shell out dodger money and players don’t want to go there. The only hope for the franchise is to out slug the opponent and hope you get home field advantage. I think the ownership is bad, but not the reason why they can’t get a front line ace.
Monfort NEEDS TO GO!!!
Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's would like to have a word about that.
Until the Rockies move into a new Denver ballpark that’s built into a mile-deep crater, I suspect their next winning season will be about a week before never. Not w/ those damned Monforts “running” things.
This fanbase just needs to be patient. One day, they'll see a championship. Maybe not in my lifetime (I'm 43) but on some bleak cloudy day in Denver you'll see a Rockies championship parade.
This comments great 😂🔥
I want to start a sell the team chant at one of the games this year
I’m all for it
Idk why I chose to be a Rockies fan
The ultimate poverty franchise.
It’s weird because unlike other owners who just want to siphon money, the Rockies’ owner is just kind of incompetent.
First.. I'm a Cardinal fan living in Colorado. Thank you for sending us Arenado and a pile of cash for pretty much nothing.
I've been to many a Rockies game where the stands weren't packed, but also note that when they are, it's often a team like the Cardinals, Cubs, Giants, or Red Sox who fill half the stadium with their own fans. Also, as several others have pointed out, it's a party or social outing for many of the fans. It's just a place to go and hang out with friends and drink beer, where the summer evening weather is always nice. Now those mid April games with snow flurries are another matter.
And yes, the ownership and front office are a bunch of bozos who have no idea how to run a baseball team.
I went to High School with John Mozeliak. I told him really worked us over in the trade for Arenado. He was like yeah your guys were SO STUPID!!
i still think carlos gonazalez is the best rockies player then...
Stan koerkone should just buy the team if he bought the team would also fix their broadcasting rights
Maybe the Rockies should move and the d backs never play in the 1970s I have been a baseball fan since I was young watching the cubs Wrigley field is one of most beautiful ballparks and has history just like in Boston
Rockies Reminds me of Anime One Out Lycaons are weakest team they become strong when Tokuchi Toua Enter at Lycaons and players become lively
The fans show up early have a tailgate party in the parking lot and stay late for another party damn fun team.
This channel should be called “Purely Negative”
Aye, positive video today! 😂
So you're saying that the a's are better.
I hate this team.
Dude, legitimately. I haven’t been to a game since they traded Arenado, I don’t even want to watch anymore.
@@bubblesthemonkey6615 I disowned them after that.
I really enjoyed my visit to coors field…beautiful 😊
I hear its an awesome ballpark!
Now that this video has been maid. “Welcome the 2024 WS The Colorado Rockies.” Written by a Padre fan. I can’t believe any team being as cursed as the Padres.
You're joking right? Once again at the All Star break and in last place. It was all over for them by the end of April.
As a Met fan, I feel for the Rockies, I know how it feels to have crappy ownership. I hope the Rockies got an owner that cares about them and baseball.
Bryant is a joke
The day the Rockies are sold I will cry tears of joy
1962 Mets never happened?
So how have they appeared in a world series and my Mariners haven't 😢
Padres fan: so we're not the worst?
The organization as a whole is not the worst team in MLB history. They still exist unlike the Seattle Pilots who were moved to Milwaukee after 1 year in existence.
Oakland athletics are now them and Chicago white Sox and us
I watched two games in 2022, none in 2023. Its so bad and I hate Bryant so much
Other than Blackmon, and Bryant, I have NO IDEA who the rest are...... 5-6 years ago I could name 75% of their roster.
Well, this blows the whole “Oakland fans don’t deserve the team leaving” argument up. Rockies are shit and the fans still show up. A’s are shit and the fans don’t show up.
The A's ownership also jacked up ticket prices in the past few years while getting the team. The fans were being asked to pay exorbitant prices for an intentionally terrible team in a stadium that leaks sewage and is literally infested with raccoons, oppossums, and feral cats.
The Rockies has talent but their owners are buttcheeks
Maybe it’s time to move the team out of Colorado.
Rockies fans deserve a winning team.
another great video
Worse than the St. Louis Browns?
im coming back here because.. somehow... we got worse this year.
😭🙏 ah Colorado
nobody deserves anything period.
"Never won the division not one time"
So they won the division at least once? That's essentially what you stated by using a double negative, since a double negative is a positive because the negatives cancel each other out.
Never won the division, means 0 times. Not one time, means 0. Not Rocket Science lol
That’s not double negative, its two separate clauses forming one sentence which makes perfect sense
For anyone interested the Denver Post wrote a story interviewing people around the league about why this organization is bad. TLDR, the Monfort wants to win but is unwilling to put resources into modern scouting analytics. They run the team like it’s still the mid-90s and are unwilling to go outside the organization for experts.
Rockies A's WS 2024
they've gatt da *nuggetz*
Bud a bum bum. That was my demonstration of the McDonalds theme song. 😂 Nuggets made me want McDonalds. Anyways, yes they do. But go Celtics.
Attendance is high because visiting fans fill the park
Bro the A’s are the worst
Sorry, but the A's have them beat, and then some.
Clickbait gets a thumbs down...
I don’t believe its clickbait? By worst team, I mean as an organization. As a history, and the constant blunders.
Obviously the 2023 Rockies weren’t the worst of all time 😂 Hell, the Athletics were worse than them
Aww that's so nice of you 😂
Nerds as the best franchise we can’t relate go tigers
Tigers own the world at this point tbh
Meanwhile the padres haven't won a ring in 60 years
Maybe the Rockies will change divisions when expansion happens XD
I swear lol they probably will too
And still stink!!!
That Kris Byrant contract hurts
to be fair as a Marlins fan I respect the Rockies signing Bryant yeah there team isnt good but to give the fans a reason to come to ball park is a good thing. Pittsburgh, Miami and other cheap owners should do the same try to get big superstars on the team is what fans want
Yep it's horrible
It's Kris Bryant, lol
The Rockies WANTED to trade Arenado, they didn’t wanna pay him anymore
As a mariners fan, id argue theyre better than seattle. At least theyve been to a world series. Mariners have existed decades longer and still havent made a fall classic.