1. We said that last year. I'm going to have to see Moyer actually decline before I pencil that in.
2. I agree
3. I agree, although I expected Romero to decline this year, and he was above average. Madson has also been consistently above average (although not as good as the second half of this year) when he's been healthy out of the pen.
4. Carrasco and Happ fight that out. I'd rather go into the season with them as my #5 than Eaton, so IMO we're ahead of last year.
5. Prior to last year (which was too small of a sample size, 3 starts), he was consistently solid. Never as good as some expected him to be, but solid.
6. If I had my way, Pat. that is a question mark, although no more of a question mark than what we asked last year about right field.
7. True, but this was true last year as well. The thought of a Ruiz/Marson rotation I'm fairly comfortable in. 3b will be a platoon again I think.
8. Howard will be here next year at the least. It could be a little uncertain after that. I don't like asking a 32 year old who's never played first to play first now.
Last year everyone talked about the rockies contending for a llong time - how did that work out?
spilborghs missed 73 games. Holliday 23. Hawpe 24. Helton missed 79 games and wasn't near the same production he's been. It's hard to achieve the previous years success when you get hit with the injuries like they did. If our players miss that kind of time next year, I don't expect us to make the playoffs either. The Rockies also didn't have the amount of sustained success (albeit not in the playoffs) we had (7 out of the last 8 years with 85+ wins).
