Colorado Rockies vs. Toronto Blue Jays: Odds, Prediction
It’s not easy to sweep any team in baseball, but the Blue Jays really should sweep a three-game set against the awful Colorado Rockies that begins Monday night at Rogers Centre. Toronto is a massive -250 favourite for the opener with a total of 8.5 on the MLB odds.
Betting Analysis
Last season, Colorado was on pace to finish with the fewest wins in modern MLB history but played a bit better in the second half and managed 43 victories – two shy of the record low set by the 2024 Chicago White Sox. The Rockies’ run differential of minus-424 was the worst.
Ownership has long been accused of doing nothing but made a managerial change during the 2025 season and overhauled the front office this winter. But the Rockies are still heavy favourites to finish with the worst record in the majors and are years from returning to playoff contention. The team was last there in 2018, its last winning season.
Toronto hasn’t lost a season series to Colorado since 2019 and swept three in Denver in 2025. Bo Bichette, now with the Mets, went nuts in that series by hitting .417 with three homers and 10 RBIs. Daulton Varsho also had three HRs and 10 knocked in, but then Coors Field is very hitter-friendly.
Colorado Rockies
To no major surprise, the awful Rockies were swept three games in Miami to open the season and totalled only seven runs. They blew a 3-0 lead on Sunday and lost on a walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning off closer Victor Vodnik. He also struggled this spring.
Free-agent addition Tomoyuki Sugano makes his Colorado debut on the mound Monday. The 36-year-old from Japan was a big-league rookie in 2025 for Baltimore and was 10-10 with a 4.64 ERA in 30 starts. Previously, Sugano played for the Yomiuri Giants for 12 seasons in Japan, winning three MVP awards in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League.
Sugano faced the Jays three times last year and was 0-1 with a 3.68 ERA and .291 batting average against in 14.2 innings. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is 3-for-7 off him with a double, and Addison Barger 1-for-2 with a homer.
Toronto Blue Jays
It all went right for the Blue Jays in opening the season with a three-game home sweep of the Athletics. Japanese important and AL Rookie of the Year candidate Kazuma Okamoto hit his first big-league homer in Sunday’s win and had at least one hit in all three games.
Toronto’s pitchers largely dominated in the series with 50 total strikeouts. That was a big-league record through a team’s first three games of a season and a team record for any three-game series.
Right-hander Cody Ponce makes his Blue Jays regular-season debut on the mound Monday. The 31-year-old hasn’t pitched a big-league game since 2021 with Pittsburgh when Ponce finished 0-6 with a 7.04 ERA spanning 15 appearances (two starts).
However, the righty resuscitated his career after four seasons pitching in Japan and Korea, winning the KBO Most Valuable Player Award in 2025, going 17-1 with a 1.89 ERA and 252 strikeouts against 41 walks in 180⅔ innings for the Hanwha Eagles.
This spring in five starts spanning 13.2 innings, Ponce had a 0.66 ERA. No current Rockies have seen him.
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