On September 22, the Colorado Rockies lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks 7–2 at Coors Field — and stamped something into the record books that MLB hadn’t seen in 61 years. Four consecutive seasons with at least 100 losses. They are only the fifth team in big-league history to reach that mark, and the first since the New York Mets did it from 1962 to 1965.
If that doesn’t fully register, the cumulative number will: across those four seasons, Colorado is 203 games under .500. That’s not a rough patch. That’s a crater.
The Only Company They Have Is the Original Mets
To understand just how rare this is, you have to go back to 1965. The Mets were born in 1962 as an expansion team — no roster, no history, no foundation — and lost 100 games in each of their first four seasons. That franchise, built from scratch, is the only one that shares this record with Colorado.
The Rockies didn’t arrive here overnight. The streak started in 2023 (59–103), the first time in franchise history they’d lost 100 games in a single season. Then came 2024 (61–101), followed by the year no Colorado fan wants to revisit: 2025, when the team finished 43–119 — a franchise record that tied the worst single-season loss total in modern MLB history. The 2026 season, with at least 12 more wins than 2025, is technically the ‘best’ of the four. That detail says everything.
What Happened on the Mound — and in the Contract
The game that sealed loss No. 100 was also likely the final home start for Kyle Freeland, the veteran who signed a five-year, $64.5 million deal to anchor the rotation. Freeland finished 2026 at 4–11 with a 6.58 ERA. His contract expires at season’s end.
Colorado’s starters didn’t win a single game over a 23-start stretch during the darkest part of the season. From mid-August on, the team went 9–34 — a run that turned what looked like a partial recovery into yet another triple-digit loss season.
Manager Warren Schaeffer, in his first full season with the official title after taking over on an interim basis in May 2025, didn’t look for excuses after the game:
«You learn the hardest lessons in the toughest moments in life. This isn’t easy. Last year, at the end of the season, we talked about how we want to feel this and never feel it again — remember it and hold onto it. The guys have done that. We just lost 100 again. There are so many lessons to learn. If we don’t learn these lessons from these games this year, we’re not going to get better.»
Hunter Goodman and the One Bright Spot
In the middle of all of it, catcher Hunter Goodman finished 2026 with 39 home runs — exactly the kind of number a rebuilding team needs to show its fans that the process has a pulse. He’s the most visible piece of a project that president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta and GM Josh Byrnes have framed as a deliberate rebuild: painful, but pointed in a direction.
The franchise hasn’t won a playoff series since its World Series appearance in 2007 and has now missed the postseason eight straight years. Playing in the NL West — where the Los Angeles Dodgers function as a win-generating machine — doesn’t make the road back any shorter.
For now, the only number Colorado can put on the table is the one nobody wants: 203 games under .500 over four years. The 1962 Mets had an excuse. They were brand new. The Rockies have been around since 1993.
