Why the 2025 Colorado Rockies are every bookmaker's nightmare - ESPN

During the 2024 season, the Chicago White Sox lost a modern MLB record 121 games — a masterpiece of baseball schadenfreude that no living person had ever seen before. Bettors delighted in regularly fading those White Sox and profited handsomely.

Yet, just one season later, another franchise is giving those White Sox (still near the bottom of the MLB barrel themselves) a run at history. Through 50 games, the Colorado Rockies are an astounding 8-42. That's a .160 winning percentage that puts them on pace to win only 26 games and lose 136, breaking the modern MLB loss record set less than a year ago.

And as with the 2024 White Sox, bettors are fading the 2025 Rockies en masse and avoiding backing them at all costs.

ESPN BET reports that Colorado has attracted the least moneyline bets of any MLB team this season, while the team playing against the Rockies are a top-three most-bet team on almost any given day. For Colorado's most recent series with the Philadelphia Phillies, the visiting Phillies were the sportsbook's most-backed MLB team of the day in three of those four games and the second-most backed in the other.

The Phillies ended up handing the Rockies yet another series sweep, and things may not be getting better for the Denver-based squad anytime soon, as they'll face a gauntlet of the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and New York Mets over their next three series.

«We need the Rockies on a daily basis,» Caesars Sportsbook lead MLB trader Eric Biggio told ESPN. «Especially if they're in a standalone spot where there's not much other stuff going on, we have to really push the price out to a good level to get any kind of money on the Rockies.»

Since reaching a major-league-long odds of -400 on May 4 on the road against