The Colorado Rockies continue to operate like they don’t understand their own ballpark.
Coors Field is the most hitter-friendly park in baseball, but instead of building a lineup that puts the ball in play and takes advantage of all that outfield grass, they’ve gone the other way—chasing power, ignoring contact, and racking up strikeouts like it’s trendy.
Their offense strikes out too much, walks too little, and relies on the home run to a fault. That might work in some parks. Not in Denver. At altitude, balls drop in. Defenses get exposed. But only if you make contact—and this team doesn’t do it nearly enough.
It’s not just bad roster construction—it’s a total misread of what gives them an edge. They should be building around doubles hitters, gap power, speed. Instead, they’ve built a lineup that’s allergic to contact and doesn’t even homer enough to justify it.
Until the Rockies realize that their home field demands a different kind of team, they’ll keep wasting the one advantage most clubs would kill to have.