2011 Colorado Rockies season

The Colorado Rockies' 2011 season, the franchise's 19th in Major League Baseball, was a season in American baseball. They did not return to the postseason for the third time in five years after also missing in 2010.

2011 Colorado Rockies
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record73–89 (.451)
Divisional place4th
Other information
Owner(s)Charles & Dick Monfort
General manager(s)Dan O'Dowd
Manager(s)Jim Tracy
Local televisionRoot Sports Rocky Mountain
Drew Goodman, George Frazier, Jeff Huson
Local radioKOA (English)
Jack Corrigan, Jerry Schemmel KMXA (Spanish)
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Offseason
  • November 16, 2010: Manuel Corpas was released by the Colorado Rockies.[1]
  • November 18, 2010: Clint Barmes was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Houston Astros for Felipe Paulino.[2]
  • December 2, 2010: José López was traded by the Seattle Mariners to the Colorado Rockies for Chaz Roe.[3]
  • December 7, 2010: Ty Wigginton was signed as a Free Agent by the Colorado Rockies.[4]
  • December 23, 2010: Matt Lindstrom was traded by the Houston Astros to the Colorado Rockies for Jonnathan Aristil (minors) and Wes Musick (minors).[5]
  • January 24, 2011: Clayton Mortensen was traded by the Oakland Athletics to the Colorado Rockies for Ethan Hollingsworth (minors).[6]

Regular season

National League West
NL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
Arizona Diamondbacks 9468 0.580 — 51–30 43–38
San Francisco Giants 8676 0.531 8 46–35 40–41
Los Angeles Dodgers 8279 0.509 11½ 42–39 40–40
Colorado Rockies 7389 0.451 21 38–43 35–46
San Diego Padres 7191 0.438 23 35–46 36–45

Record vs. opponents
2011 National League Records

Source: [7]
Team ARI ATL CHC CIN COL FLA HOU LAD MIL NYM PHI PIT SD SF STL WSH AL
Arizona–2–33–44–213–55–26–110–84–33–33–33–311–79–93–45–310–8
Atlanta3–2–4–33–36–212–65–12–55–39–96–124–24–56–11–59–910–5
Chicago4–33–4–7–112–43–38–73–36–104–22–58–83–35–45–103–45–10
Cincinnati2–43–311–7–3–43–39–64–28–82–51–75–104–25–29–64–26–12
Colorado5–132–64–24–3–3–35–29–93–65–21–44–39–95–132–44–38–7
Florida2–56–123–33–33–3–6–13–30–79–96–126–00–74–22–611–78–10
Houston1–61–57–86–92–51–6–4–53–123–32–47–113–54–35–103–34–11
Los Angeles8–105–23–32–49–93–35–4–2–42–51–56–213–59–94–34–26–9
Milwaukee3–43–510–68–86–37–012–34–2–4–23–412–33–23–39–93–36–9
New York3–39–92–45–22–59–93–35–22–4–7–114–44–32–43–38–109–9
Philadelphia3–312–65–27–14–112–64–25–14–311–7–4–27–14–33–68–109–6
Pittsburgh3–32–48–810–53–40–611–72–63–124–42–4–2–43–37–94–48–7
San Diego7–115–43–32–49–97–05–35–132–33–41–74–2–6–123–33–46–9
San Francisco9–91–64–52–513–52–43–49–93–34–23–43–312–6–5–23–410–5
St. Louis4–35–110–56–94–26–210–53–49–93–36–39–73–32–5–2–48–7
Washington3–59–94–32–43–47–113–32–43–310–810–84–44–34–34–2–8–7

Transactions
  • May 19, 2011: Franklin Morales was sold by the Colorado Rockies to the Boston Red Sox.[8]
  • May 26, 2011: Felipe Paulino was sold by the Colorado Rockies to the Kansas City Royals.[9]
  • June 7, 2011: José López was released by the Colorado Rockies.[10]
  • June 30, 2011: Mark Ellis was traded by the Oakland Athletics to the Colorado Rockies for Bruce Billings and a player to be named later. The Colorado Rockies sent Eliezer Mesa (minors) (September 30, 2011) to the Oakland Athletics to complete the trade.[11]
  • July 30, 2011: Ubaldo Jiménez was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Cleveland Indians for Alex White, Matt McBride, Joe Gardner (minors), and a player to be named later. The Cleveland Indians sent Drew Pomeranz (August 16, 2011) to the Colorado Rockies to complete the trade.[12]
  • August 8, 2011: Kevin Millwood was signed as a Free Agent by the Colorado Rockies.[13]
  • August 23, 2011: Kevin Kouzmanoff was traded by the Oakland Athletics to the Colorado Rockies for a player to be named or cash.[14]

Major League debuts
  • Batters:
    • Charlie Blackmon (Jun 7)
    • Cole Garner (Jul 4)
    • Jordan Pacheco (Sep 6)
    • Wilin Rosario (Sep 6)
    • Tommy Field (Sep 11)
    • Héctor Gómez (Sep 16)
  • Pitchers:
    • Alan Johnson (Apr 17)
    • Bruce Billings (May 27)
    • Juan Nicasio (May 28)
    • Rex Brothers (Jun 6)
    • Drew Pomeranz (Sep 11) [15]

Roster
2011 Colorado Rockies
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

 Manager

Coaches

Game log
Legend
Rockies Win Rockies Loss Game Postponed
2011 Game Log

Player stats
= Indicates team leader

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Chris Iannetta 112 345 82 .238 14 55
1B Todd Helton 124 421 127 .302 14 69
2B Mark Ellis 70 263 72 .274 6 25
SS Troy Tulowitzki 143 537 162 .302 30 105
3B Ty Wigginton 130 401 97 .242 15 47
LF Carlos González 127 481 142 .295 26 92
CF Dexter Fowler 125 481 128 .266 5 45
RF Seth Smith 147 476 135 .284 15 59

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Jonathan Herrera10428168.242314
Ryan Spilborghs9820042.210322
Eric Young, Jr.7719849.247010
Chris Nelson6318045.250416
Jason Giambi6413134.2601332
José López3812526.20828
Ian Stewart4812219.15606

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Jhoulys Chacín31194.011143.62150
Jason Hammel32170.17134.7694
Ubaldo Jiménez21123.0694.46118
Aaron Cook1897.03106.0348
Esmil Rogers1883.0667.0563
Juan Nicasio1371.2444.1458

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Jorge De La Rosa1059.0523.5152
Clayton Mortensen1658.1243.8630
Kevin Millwood954.1433.9836
Rex Brothers4840.2122.8859
Alex White736.1248.4224

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Matt Belisle7410403.2558
Matt Reynolds731204.0950
Rafael Betancourt682082.8973
Matt Lindstrom632223.0036
Huston Street6214293.8655


Notes
  • On September 24, the Rockies and Houston Astros played the 200,000th game in MLB history.[16] The Rockies won 4-2 in 13 innings.

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Colorado Springs Sky Sox Pacific Coast League Stu Cole
AA Tulsa Drillers Texas League Duane Espy
A Modesto Nuts California League Jerry Weinstein
A Asheville Tourists South Atlantic League Joe Mikulik
A-Short Season Tri-City Dust Devils Northwest League Fred Ocasio
Rookie Casper Ghosts Pioneer League Tony Diaz

[17]

References
  1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/corpama01.shtml
  2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/paulife01.shtml
  3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezjo01.shtml
  4. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wiggity01.shtml
  5. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lindsma01.shtml
  6. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mortecl01.shtml
  7. baseball-reference.com Head-to-Head Records
  8. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moralfr01.shtml
  9. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/paulife01.shtml
  10. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezjo01.shtml
  11. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/ellisma01.shtml
  12. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jimenub01.shtml
  13. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millwke01.shtml
  14. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kouzmke01.shtml
  15. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/yearly/debut.php?y=2011&l=NL
  16. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110921&content_id=25015352&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
  17. https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/affiliate.cgi?id=COL
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