Here’s How Many Wins the Colorado Rockies are Projected to Get
The Rockies are off to a pretty rough start already in the 2021 season, as they currently sit tied in last place in the NL West with a 1-3 record.
With some major player moves taking place during the off-season, and the way the new season has already begun, many fans are wondering just how well the Rockies will fare this year.
It s impossible to predict the future, and with 162 games a lot can happen, but there s always pre-season projections to use as an indicator of how the Rockies rank among the rest of the MLB teams.
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Baseball Prospectus has released its yearly record projections for each Major League Baseball team. If you’re not familiar, they use a system called “PECOTA,” which stands for “Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm.” It’s a system that uses sabermetrics in an attempt to predict the performance of teams and players. By no means is the system perfect, as it only correctly picked two out of the six division winners correctly in last season, but it’s certainly fun to look at the projections.
In 2020, the Yankees were projected to win the American League East and make it all the way to the World Series. Obviously, that didn’t happen as the Tampa Bay Rays stole that title and galloped their way to represent the AL in the Fall Classic. However, with the losses of Blake Snell and Charlie Morton at the top of their rotation, the Rays will supposedly see a drastic drop in their win total, as PECOTA sees them winning arou