Rockies owner Dick Monfort. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
This all started . During an 8-6 loss in a Cactus League game against San Francisco, Rockies owner Dick Monfort said he believed his team would win at least 90 games this season.
The math, of course, seemed questionable, so The Post’s Mark Kiszla questioned him about it.
“When Tulo and CarGo both play in the same game, I think we win 60 percent of the time,” Monfort said. “So you take 60 percent times 160 games and that’s 96 wins.”
His positive/idealistic/irrational calculation would have required the Rockies’ stars, Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez, to have stayed healthy (they didn’t), and for Brett Anderson to have filled a void in the Rockies’ rotation (he didn’t).
The injuries piled up almost as quickly as the losses did, and on Sunday, against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Rockies closed out their season in the most predictable fashion: with a loss. , bringing its 2014 record to 66-96.
That’s right: Montfort predicted 96 wins. The Rockies gave him 96 losses.
Their record was the second-worst in the team’s 22-year history; the team’s 98-loss season in 2012 was worse.
Tags: Carlos Gonzalez, Dick Monfort, Injuries, Mark Kiszla, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
