2012 Fantasy Baseball Colorado Rockies Starting Rotation Preview

Jorge de la Rosa (credits below) This is part 2 of our 30 part series previewing every starting rotation in the league. Now up: the Colorado Rockies. Jorge de la Rosa has pitched more than 130 innings in a major league season exactly once (185 IP in 2009). The only season in which he recorded an ERA under 4.00 was his 3.51 mark in just 59 innings before injury last year. The small sample size season that was 2011 for de la Rosa was also the only time he has ever finished a season with a WHIP lower than 1.30 (1.19). Coming off a mediocre 2010 performance in which he only tossed 120 or so innings, de la Rosa was going at the tail end of drafts heading into last year (ADP: 225). And so, coming off a second consecutive injury shortened season, it’s likely the lack-of-control-lefty will go undrafted in many leagues. But because Day-lah has a K/9 of 8.82 in almost 500 innings as a Rockie, he is absolutely worthy of a draft pick, even in ten-team standard leagues. As a late ...