Five MLB teams on the brink? By Rob Neyer and Jonah Keri http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=mlb/080520&sportCat=mlb Rob: Next up: Rockies. Dead or alive? Jonah: I say muerto. You can't deny this was a talented team that blazed through the league last September. Even more encouraging was the fact that this team was young, with core players like Matt Holliday, Garrett Atkins and Brad Hawpe in their prime, and Troy Tulowitzki, Franklin Morales, Ubaldo Jimenez and Jeff Francis looking like they'd only get better with age. But I look at it another way: Absolutely everything that could go right for the Rockies during last year's late surge did. Everyone was hitting, you had rookie pitchers doing reasonable impressions of a peak-era Lefty Grove, everyone was healthy … it was all just off the charts. This year Tulo started the year at a much lower level, and now he's out for a long time due to injury. As talented as Morales is, he's shown he's not quite ready to be effective over a full major league season. Holliday has predictably regressed from superhuman to just very good, second base has been a wasteland and Manny Corpas' deal with the devil ran out real quick. I still like this team's chances long-term, but I think they're done for this season. Rob: Definitely. I mean, we can probably dispense with this dead/alive choice quickly for the Rockies and the Padres, if only because they're both so far behind good teams. But yeah, the Rockies just weren't likely to duplicate last season. Too many young pitchers with control issues in the minors suddenly began throwing quality strikes in the majors. For that reason and others, the Rockies figured as roughly a .500 team this year. And that was with Tulowitzki's good bat and great glove at shortstop. Without him, they're finis. 被宣判死刑 --

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