Found March 18, 2013 on The Outside Corner: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Continuing from this morning's season preview of the Colorado Rockies... Do the Rockies have an actual plan? For most teams, our Burning Question series has focused on the performance of a certain player or a key position battle. But for the Rockies, there is a much larger question at hand. Does this organization actually have a plan for turning things around? That sounds harsh, probably because it is. But that doesn't make it any less relevant of a question. What the Rockies have is a roster with superstar caliber players in Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez but also a record that has gotten worse for three consecutive seasons before completely bottoming out at 64-98 in 2012. The problem though isn't that the Rockies are losing, it is that it isn't clear what they are doing to stop the losing from continuing. Just looking at what they've done in the past year, they've shown every sign of being a franchise that either has no plan or no plan ...
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