The Colorado Rockies’ 2025 season comes to a close this weekend, not with a whimper but maybe more of a choking, guttural sigh.

Through Thursday night, the team has lost 116 games and won only 43. That means they won’t set the modern-era record for most losses in a season, but their record-awful -416 (and counting!) run differential will almost certainly stand the test of time . (The previous record for baseball’s modern era was -349, and the second-worst run differential in the majors this year is less than half as bad as the Rockies’.)

Reasons for the Rox’s wreck abound: They’re bad at drafting and player development , they’re bad at data analytics, they’re bad at innovation and listening to outside ideas. You know, nuts and bolts baseball things.

But a couple weeks ago, in a f

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