The Rockies Will Never Win

   The Rockies play in Coors Stadium, one of the best offensive parks in baseball. The air up there is thin, so the ball travels much farther, making homers much easier to hit. They moved the fences way back to combat this, and now extra base hits are much easier to come by, and bloop singles will drop. This is why Colorado has one of the best offenses in baseball. But that's not always a good thing. The Rockies will always be in the bottom five in pitching, for three reasons. The first is that because of the thin air, pitches don't break. A straight pitch is much easier to hit. You will always have bad pitching in Denver. The second is because of how big Coors is. Fly outs turn into bloop singles, and singles turn into doubles, into triples, and so on. The third is a result of the previous two. Because of the bad conditions of location and the size of the stadium, good free agent pitchers won't want to play there. You might think "Well, they could make up for the lack of pitching with hitting." They can't. They can't default onto Coors for the half of the season they're on the road, and when they are at Coors, and the matchup is Clayton Kershaw versus Jorge De La Rosa, which team do you think will come out on top? Sure Kershaw will be affected by Coors, but so will De La Rosa. Furthermore, teams coming in are used to hitting in pitcher's parks, especially in the Rockies own division, the NL West. What do you think will happen to their bats when they walk into Denver? I'll give you an answer: Mike Piazza.  When Piazza was on the Roids back in the late 90's, he was hitting massive homers at Dodger Stadium. Four hundred fifty foot moon shots. When he went to Coors, he would hit the ball five hundred feet the other way. Teams can beat the Rockies very easily. They will never be able to win until they either move, or build a dome.