30 MLB Teams in 30 Posts - 2022 Edition: #12

Welcome back to the next post in my 30 MLB Teams in 30 Posts countdown (plus the contest - see the bottom of the post for details on that).

#12:  Colorado Rockies (Previous Rankings - 2019, 2020: #8, 14)

Fun trivia on the back of this card - feel free to give your answer in the comments:  With which team did Rockies manager Don Baylor win a World Series?

The Colorado Rockies come in at #12 in this year's rankings, almost exactly halfway between their best (#8) and worst (#14) showing on my rankings for any year.  

The state of Colorado is one of the few US states that I still have never visited - so it's on my bucket list for sure (as is the Rockies' stadium because it always looks so nice whenever I watch their games on TV).  In addition, for whatever reason I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Rockies going all the way back to their expansion year.  Back then, the Rockies and Marlins both joined the National League and my 11-year-old brain instantly decided that it was the Rockies which were "cool" and worth rooting for while the Marlins were only "sort of cool."  I did have a Marlins gym bag back in 1993 or 1994 for some reason, the details of which are now too fuzzy to recall.

Anyhow, I digress.  The Rockies are a perfectly fine team and one that is likely to stay in my top half of MLB teams simply because the Reds and Rockies don't interact all that much (neither team is exactly on the hot path the playoffs...and certainly not on a collision course to play each other in some sort of knockout playoff round).  

Also worth noting, the Rockies mascot is a dinosaur and that's awesome.

My 2022 MLB Rankings (so far):

#30:  St. Louis Cardinals

#29:  New York Yankees

#28:  Boston Red Sox

#27:  Washington Nationals

#26:  San Francisco Giants

#25:  Chicago Cubs

#24:  Milwaukee Brewers

#23:  Miami Marlins

#22:  Atlanta Braves

#21:  Texas Rangers

#20:  Arizona Diamondbacks

#19:  Philadelphia Phillies

#18:  New York Mets

#17:  Baltimore Orioles

#16:  Los Angeles Dodgers

#15:  Los Angeles Angels

#14:  San Diego Padres

#13:  Oakland Athletics

#12:  Colorado Rockies

#11:  ??

Contest entries to date (see here for details):

Fuji 27

Brett Alan 25

Crocodile 24

John Sharp 22

bbcardz 21

hiflew 20

Matt 19

The Lost Collector 18

Night Owl 11

Mike Matson 7

Jafronius 4

Wilson 3

Nick Vossbrink 3

Adam Kaningher 2

Alan Deakins 2

madding 1

Wrigley Wax 1

Next time up, we move on to a team that was my "adopted favorite team" for a few years while the were out of it.  I needed a fun team to watch and root for and this team fit that bill.  Luckily, I never did buy a hat of theirs or anything because now that team sits outside my Top 10 MLB teams!