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30. Colorado Rockies (46-116, fifth in NL West, 619 runs scored, 1026 runs allowed).
It is no fun projecting a team to lose 116 games while allowing more than 1000 runs. There is so little to recommend here, a 119-loss team that may have gotten worse this offseason by adding players, like pitch-to-contact starters Tomoyuki Sagano, Jose Quintana, and Michael Lorenzen, who simply don’t fit the environment. When Rockies opponents didn’t strike out at Coors Field last year, they hit .349 and slugged .597, and that was with the humidor tamping down the value of hard contact. They’ll do even more of that in 2026.
