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The time has finally come. After an impressive 10-year streak, it appears that the Rockies will not have a player receive the starting nod for the 2021 MLB All-Star game. The first phase of voting for the Midsummer Classic concluded on June 24, with only the top three vote recipients (top nine for outfielders) at each position moving on to the final phase to decide the starters. Since no Rockies player appears to be in the mix for that honor of moving on, it seems right to look back on the previous decade of Rockies All-Star game starters.
2010: Ubaldo Jiménez
It’s not often that a pitcher for the Rockies makes the All-Star Game, let alone get penciled in as the starter, but such a thing happened in 2010 for Ubaldo Jiménez. The Rockies’ right-hander was virtually unhittable in the first half of the 2010 season. Leading up to mid-July, Jiménez was 16-2 with a 2.20 ERA, 113 strikeouts, an opponent batting line of .198/.280/.302, and let’s not forget the no-hitter he tossed
For the second time this week, the Colorado Rockies are scheduled to play a doubleheader because of a rainout, this time Saturday against the Pirates in Pittsbu
Arenado was traded in part because he was unhappy about how the team has been run, Since Arenado made his first All-Star team in 2015, the Rockies have spent $281.6 million on 12 free agents. Virtually all of their decisions have been disasters. From breakout hitters without a position (Murphy, Ian Desmond) to veteran relievers on their way down (Wade Davis, Jake McGee, Bryan Shaw, Mike Dunn, Jason Motte, Chad Qualls), the Rockies have missed on all 12 free agents with the possible exception of a one-year, $2.6 million deal for Mark Reynolds, who was O.K.
In Bridich s tenure as the general manager, the team made two postseason appearances but failed to win a game in either playoff series.