The optics are awful. The reaction is anger. And the reason is only defensible if the Rockies show they want to microwave their rebuild by adding a few free agents.

“We can’t put a limit on how we’re going to use (starting pitchers) next year,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “We need to get creative.”

The Broncos, Rockies and Kroenke Sports and Entertainment clubs teamed up Monday to endorse Issue 7A, a November ballot measure asking for a new sales tax to fund a proposed Colorado Connector rail expansion.

With another rough Rockies season in the books, here’s a look at Colorado’s fourth straight 100-loss season by the numbers — the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

A couple former friends gave the Rockies a swift kick in the baseball pants to send Colorado into the offseason.

The Chicago White Sox had their hopes of winning the AL Central dashed when Hunter Goodman hit his 40th and 41st homers to lift the Colorado Rockies in a 9-6 win Saturday night.

A facility Deion Sanders’ players were heard openly and profanely mocking was paid for, and named for, a bunch of Coloradans.

The Rockies are, unfortunately, the company they now keep.