Jorge De La Rosa's stats are deceiving. His 0-2 record in five starts may look like he's struggling early on in the year. He's posting a 3.90 ERA, and a 1.37 WHIP. He's only owned in 0.8% of ESPN fantasy baseball leagues. However, De La Rosa is doing much better than what his stats are saying.
In his five starts on the year, De La Rosa has pitched 27.2 innings, and has struck out 23. He's walked just 12 batters, and has given up just one home run in that span, in his last start vs the Padres.
De La Rosa has gotten the short end of the stick, in terms of runs scored while he's pitching. The Rockies, who are just 1-4 when De La Rosa is on the mound, have scored just 19 runs when De La Rosa has been given the start.
In a three game stretch in late April, De La Rosa gave up just four earned runs in three starts. He pitched a shutout through 5.1 innings against the Dodgers, but in the span De La Rosa went 0-1 through the three games he pitched in.
Run production has been the Rockies' weak spot when De La Rosa has been pitching, clearly. Every time De La Rosa is on the hill, the Rockies always have a chance to win. Subsequently, whenever he's on the hill, the Rockies don't get the memo that they need runs to win the game.
De La Rosa pitched for the Mexican team in the World Baseball Classic, and is on Mexico's National Baseball team.
De La Rosa was traded to the Rockies in April of last year. During his tenure with the club, he's 10-10 with 151 strikeouts in 157.2 innings.
Colorado is 11-17 on the year, but there's no way anyone could blame De La Rosa. His 0-2 record may seem poor to those who haven't watched the Rockies play, but for those who have watched them, they know that De La Rosa's stuff has been raw this year, and just needs some simple run support to backup his pitching efforts.
The left handed pitcher gets the start for the Rockies later tonight against the Florida Marlins. Hopefully the left handed pitcher will get his first win of the year for the struggling Rockies.
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