It’s time again for Friday Funday, and well, maybe this is not so fun for the Colorado Rockies fans out there. In 2017 and 2018, the team made consecutive postseasons for the first time in franchise history, as the team has just five playoff appearances since its origination in 1993. This includes the magical run to the 2007 World Series, where the team won 21 of 22 games before having to sit around and wait for the Fall Classic.

But we digress; this isn’t about the past. It’s about this season where the Rox just swept the Miami Marlins to push their record to 12-50 on the year. That is not a typo: the team’s first series win of 2025 is what got them to that mark, and there are 100 games to go in this season. While 2023 had the bad Oakland Athletics and 2024 had the bad Chicago White Sox, it looks like this season’s team of cruel destiny is the Rockies.

We documented the A’s 2023 season here, as they managed to win 50 games and avoid infamy (mostly). Last year, we commented on the ChiSox as they ended up winning just 41 games. Now? Colorado is on pace for only 31 or 32 victories. How did they get so bad? Since the 2018 postseason, the Rockies haven’t been able to win more than 74 games in a single season (2021). Heck, even last season, the team managed a 61-101 mark.

So, what fell out? Well … the team has gotten ever-so-slightly younger, so that’s not really it, in terms of a full-rebuild, strip down of the roster. The team hit .242 last year with a .704 OPS, while the pitching staff posted a frightening 5.48 ERA with a 1.519 WHIP. This season, those numbers have changed, of course: .216 BA, .635 OPS, 5.54 ERA, and 1.554 WHIP. The biggest dropoff, therefore, has been on the offensive side.

Who are the biggest disappointments on the Colorado roster this year, then? The team has just two regulars with an OPS+ mark over 100: catcher Hunter Goodman (118) and outfielder Jordan Beck (109). Talk about “Sell the Team!” … the team OPS+ mark is just 70, which means the Rockies organization literally could pull seven guys off the street and do just as “well” as they are doing now. There are many examples here to share.

First baseman Michael Toglia leads the majors with 81 strikeouts already, while hitting .194 in across 54 games so far. He is a career .203 hitter, but even so, his OPS+ mark has dropped from 103 last year to just 65 this season. Toglia is in his age-26 season, so we might assume he will get better as the season progresses. But that kind of dropoff is pretty drastic. The 2025 season is far from over, so some return to the mean …

Age-30 third baseman Ryan McMahon is another example; he’s been a serviceable hitter for years with a career .240 BA and a .740 OPS. At this point in his career, he still should be in his peak stretch, but he’s dropped off to a .201 BA and a .654 OPS. It’s like the whole team has been slumping at the plate, which is why the front office did fire longtime manager Bud Black recently. But is it really his fault? Or just bad luck?

Time will tell.

More hitting slumps: Center fielder Brenton Doyle, who has won two Gold Gloves in a row, hit .260 last year with a .764 OPS, and he’s down to .204 and .588 this year. He’s just in his age-27 season, so he should be improving (more reason to fire Black, perhaps). The team also has an age-35 designated hitter who has no right being in the majors at all now (Nick Martini). His 58 OPS+ mark demonstrates that, obvi. Come on!

Somewhere, the front office has to take responsibility for not being able to find someone better than that. The team plays in a beautiful stadium with a big metropolitan audience; maybe the fans just don’t care, but if we were living in Denver still, we’d be all over this ownership group for sucking. We know good pitching always will be hard to come by in the Mile High City, but even Donald Trump could do better than this.

Editor’s Note: We worked for the Rockies in multiple capacities during the 2000 and 2001 seasons.